cos-evolve SKILL.md skillA

cos-evolve from sno-ai/sno-station-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add sno-ai/sno-station-skills/cos-evolve@git:20261001.8e39faf

Pins git:20261001.8e39faf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
sno-ai/sno-station-skills
Path
skills/T-delegation-and-work-orders/cos/skills/cos-evolve/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261001.8e39faf, committed Oct 1, 2026
Size
15,514 bytes
Repository stars
481
License
Apache-2.0

Turn repeated management failures into enforced COS or PL rules. Load ONLY after the owner has explicitly activated the cos role for this session and the COS core routes here. Never invoke directly.

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

# COS — harvesting friction into law

Before running these commands, set `PL_SKILL_DIR` to the absolute directory of the installed `pl` skill, in the same Bash call.

Load only when the owner has explicitly activated the COS role for this session and the
COS core routes a repeated management failure here.

**Exclusive authority of this overlay: the pen over skill files and `LEARNING.md`** (the
batch review only appends the decision-rights lines named in its Pass 1). No other part of
the COS tree, and no PL, may edit them. PLs propose by card.

**The decision-rights file is different.** `~/.config/sno/decision-rights.md` is the owner's.
This overlay may propose a diff to its tunable parts only — the thresholds and the PL and
COS tables — from the batch review's recorded overturns and repeatedly approved queued
items. Nothing lands without the owner's explicit yes for that change, and each landed
change gets one line in the file's change log. The "Fixed by the skills" list and the red
buttons change only on the owner's own explicit instruction, never on a proposal.

**Never edit the skill tree mid-journey.** Evolution runs through a retro pass. A running
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add sno-ai/sno-station-skills/cos-evolve@sha256:1b5d3eea0bc477a3

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.8e39faf, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 1, 2026.

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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 (15514 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
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

sno-ai/sno-station-skills · 481 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4bufgjohmqqvtkxa
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sno-ai/sno-station-skills/cos-evolve
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1b5d3eea0bc477a324e159572066d8686ea2ecf1c63dbb11f84659fa62ba78b6

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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