disambiguate SKILL.md skillA
disambiguate from broomva/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add broomva/skills/disambiguate@git:20260917.b709d10Pins git:20260917.b709d10 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
- Path
skills/tooling/disambiguate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260917.b709d10, committed Sep 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 16,447 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Rewrite a requirement so it can only be read one way. Distilled from ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — forty years of aerospace evidence about what a reader misreads when they cannot ask the author what he meant. Turns a vague ask ("handle errors gracefully", "the system should support X") into something atomic, owned, bounded, and testable, and says which of five reader-questions each defect leaves open. Ships a deterministic checker (scripts/disambiguate.py, stdlib only) that catches…
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
# disambiguate — make a requirement readable exactly one way **A requirement is read by someone who cannot ask you what you meant. Every reading your words permit is a system someone might build.** ## Why an aerospace writing standard is the right source ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English exists because maintenance manuals were killing people. Technicians across dozens of first languages read procedures written by native English engineers, misread them, and aircraft came apart. The standard is not a style guide that emerged from taste. It is an incident ledger. Each rule closes one observed way a reader went wrong. Its design assumptions are worth stating plainly, because they are what makes it transfer: 1. The reader may not share the author's language or background. 2. The reader **cannot ask a follow-up question.** 3. A misreading is expensive and discovered late. 4. The reader consumes **one unit at a time, out of context** — they do not read the document, they read the step in front of them. Those four conditions describe a technician at 3am with a torque wrench. They also describe, exactly, an engineer picking up your ticket, a contractor …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/disambiguate@sha256:1c82714f297a487aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260917.b709d10, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4c77mv5dewpxq5ll)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Sep 17, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260917.b709d10 latest | 2026-09-17 | b709d10 | 16,447 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.b36c0ec | 2026-08-21 | b36c0ec | 16,395 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.998e431 | 2026-07-29 | 998e431 | 16,387 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16447 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
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4c77mv5dewpxq5ll GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=broomva/skills/disambiguate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1c82714f297a487ae77cf0f2484860d6127dad1c6899d0f11423ec01e01ec42d
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.