project-groundwork SKILL.md skillA
project-groundwork from aethrox/doctrine is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aethrox/doctrine/project-groundwork@git:20260809.2a45dbbPins git:20260809.2a45dbb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aethrox/doctrine
- Path
skills/project-groundwork/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260809.2a45dbb, committed Aug 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 9, 2026
- Size
- 5,110 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Check an existing draft specification or README against a fixed set of quality characteristics, batch only the genuinely blocking gaps into one round of questions, and write each resolved decision into the source document plus the repository's existing decision-recording artifact when one exists. Use when a draft spec or architecture doc has sections that disagree with each other, still carries TBDs, or needs its open points settled before implementation starts.
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
# Project Groundwork A draft document is not settled just because it exists; internal contradictions and unresolved TBDs hide in it until implementation runs into them. This skill's defining constraint, from ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148's requirements quality characteristics: a specification is checked against a fixed, named set of properties rather than a vague sense of whether it "looks done." The standard distinguishes properties of one requirement (unambiguous, verifiable) from properties of the document as a whole (complete, consistent); both are checked here. This is a narrow, existing-document job, distinct from three doctrine skills it would otherwise overlap: - `wayfinder` charts open decisions when no document exists yet, or the whole effort is too large to spec in one pass. This skill starts from a draft that already exists. - `grilling` is the general-purpose interview technique for closing any known-versus-needed gap. This skill uses `grilling`'s batching discipline for the specific gaps this skill's own scan surfaces; it does not redefine the interview mechanics. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aethrox/doctrine/project-groundwork@sha256:9552c1834e9e84a3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.2a45dbb, 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_4dyovnsrwuhqx77e)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 9, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260809.2a45dbb latest | 2026-08-09 | 2a45dbb | 5,110 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.ffadeff | 2026-08-09 | ffadeff | 5,008 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.128664e | 2026-08-09 | 128664e | 4,557 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 (5110 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
aethrox/doctrine · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4dyovnsrwuhqx77e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aethrox/doctrine/project-groundwork GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9552c1834e9e84a39c6d8ef4281b56d2798cc451e862d13bf04efb2998cc713c
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