Verify the requested behavior against the real artifact or surface whenever possible; a proxy check only proves the proxy. Use when verifying changes, completing tasks, or claiming something is fixed.
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
# Prove It Works
## Trigger
When verifying changes, completing tasks, or claiming something is fixed.
## Rule
Verify the requested behavior against the real artifact or surface whenever possible; a proxy check only proves the proxy.
## Application
1. Name the concrete decision this principle changes.
2. Apply the rule to that decision, not as a decorative citation.
3. Prefer evidence from the current repository/runtime over generic preference.
4. If the principle conflicts with an explicit user constraint, keep the constraint and state the tradeoff.
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.f096f61, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4u5b6yw36b52r3xr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=theonlyfusioncube/potetos-for-everyone/principle-prove-it-works
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a4252ce8d37bf31d4d53b960db565af633a64f0be37307d21f8a08d79b6f449b
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