temporal-awareness SKILL.md skillA

temporal-awareness from jpcaparas/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jpcaparas/skills/temporal-awareness@git:20260925.692d684

Pins git:20260925.692d684 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jpcaparas/skills
Path
skills/research/temporal-awareness/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260925.692d684, committed Sep 25, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 12, 2026
Size
6,974 bytes
Repository stars
56
License
none declared

Use for latest/current/recent/today/yesterday/tomorrow questions, changing models, versions, prices, schedules, executives, laws, weather, scores, or other time-sensitive facts. Ground answers in clock and timezone, verify live when needed, and convert relative dates. Do NOT use for stable history.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# temporal-awareness

Use a reliable time anchor and the user's timezone for time-sensitive answers; verify changing external facts separately.

## Decision Tree

What is the time-sensitive failure mode?

- Need a clean session anchor before answering
  - Reuse a fresh, reliable session clock and known user timezone when sufficient.
  - If missing, stale, or boundary math matters, run `python3 scripts/capture_temporal_context.py --format markdown` (add `--extra-zone <user-zone>` when needed). Read `references/bootstrap.md` for details.

- Need to decide whether a prompt can be answered from stable knowledge or needs live verification
  - Reason from the claim's volatility and available evidence. `scripts/recency_guard.py` is an optional advisory heuristic, not a required command or a substitute for judgment.
  - Read `references/recency-triage.md` when the distinction is unclear.

- Need patterns for `latest`, `today`, `yesterday`, `tomorrow`, timezone math, or source selection
  - Read `references/verification-patterns.md`

- Need refresh rules for long-running sessions, day rollovers, or recurring work
  - Read `references/long-horizon.md`
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jpcaparas/skills/temporal-awareness@sha256:479966e94b4cfca9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.692d684, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 12, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 13 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6974 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source

GitHub

jpcaparas/skills · 56 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_44qw47n2d6w4am4f
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpcaparas/skills/temporal-awareness
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/479966e94b4cfca9cfd123e269baeb0ee8cae099694db05c8e3ded407ee056e2

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