plumb-line-bootstrap SKILL.md skillA
plumb-line-bootstrap from slopstopper/plumb-line is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add slopstopper/plumb-line/plumb-line-bootstrap@git:20261003.edc1711Pins git:20261003.edc1711 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- slopstopper/plumb-line
- Path
skills/plumb-line-bootstrap/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 24
- Latest version
- git:20261003.edc1711, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 14, 2026
- Size
- 28,728 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when setting up a project with the plumb-line discipline — interviews the builder to find their source-truth layer and layering, generates a domain-neutral ruleset, and installs parameterized enforcement (boundary check, test gate, pre-commit gate, branch guard) for the project's language. Ships no default layers and invents no answers.
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
# Bootstrap a project with plumb-line Part of the five-skill flow: find your fit with `plumb-line-adopt`, learn the discipline with `plumb-line-method`, set the project up here, review changes with `plumb-line-audit`, and apply findings with `plumb-line-remediate`. REQUIRED READING FIRST: `reference/portable-principles.md` and `adapters/adapter-contract.md` (plugin root). If either file cannot be read, stop immediately and report which file is missing. Do not proceed from memory. ## Two entries: full bootstrap vs. declaration-only (mid-audit) This skill has two entry modes. **Full bootstrap** — the builder asked for setup — runs every step below. **Declaration-only** — `plumb-line-audit` invoked this skill because the project declares no architecture and the audit needs that context before proceeding — runs a deliberately two-minute detour: - Ask ONLY interview questions 1–3 (layers + direction; source-truth layer; composition root). The audit needs the declaration, not the ceremony. - Write the ruleset from those answers (Step 3), marking every section the interview did not reach as `planned` — an un-asked question must not read as an answered one. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add slopstopper/plumb-line/plumb-line-bootstrap@sha256:122b1b92622d8e62The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.edc1711, 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_4jksia3ihv6brisr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 24 versions of this file, between Aug 14, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261003.edc1711 latest | 2026-10-03 | edc1711 | 28,728 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.56a2cad | 2026-10-03 | 56a2cad | 28,648 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.121a25f | 2026-10-02 | 121a25f | 28,357 B | A | view · diff |
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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 (28728 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
slopstopper/plumb-line · 4 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4jksia3ihv6brisr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=slopstopper/plumb-line/plumb-line-bootstrap GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/122b1b92622d8e621e53d1a83afa838ea5bbd8b425457cb22fc8d73970738b6d
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