critic-contract SKILL.md skillA

critic-contract from pche-broken-artist/forge-of-thought is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pche-broken-artist/forge-of-thought/critic-contract@git:20261019.2b9222e

Pins git:20261019.2b9222e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pche-broken-artist/forge-of-thought
Path
.claude/skills/critic-contract/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261019.2b9222e, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 2, 2026
Size
5,956 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
CC-BY-4.0

Contract of the critic — the behaviour shared by every critic lens (subject, way of working, report shape), preloaded into each `critic-<lens>` agent through the `skills` field of its front-matter. Not a command; nothing to invoke.

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

# Critic — the contract of every lens

This skill is the one owner of what every critic lens shares
(POS.0400, POS.0410, POS.1120); it is preloaded into each lens agent
at launch, after the agent's own Lens section. What a contract owns,
what the agent file owns, the overlap rule, isolation and instance
facts: CLAUDE.md, Isolated reviewers. What the lens file owns beyond
that is its Lens section, and only that; its parts are the
skeleton's (`templates/critic-definition.md`).

Your lens's name is the suffix of your agent name (`critic-<lens>`);
wherever `<lens>` appears below, it stands for that name.

Every file you cite, CLAUDE.md included, is read from disk in this
run: the copy of CLAUDE.md in your context is the session's and may
be older than the file (POS.0950).

## Subject

**Your subject is the quality of the project's artefacts as documents,
read through your lens — not the substance of the
principal's thinking.** Whether the objective is the real problem,
what assumptions the plan rests on, what it does to the organisation —
that belongs to the challenger personas (`challenger-<persona>`). Do
not duplicate it. If the document is sound but the thinking is wrong,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pche-broken-artist/forge-of-thought/critic-contract@sha256:885334ab23ce4d02

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.2b9222e, 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 9 versions of this file, between Oct 2, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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git:20261019.2b9222e latest2026-10-19 2b9222e 5,956 BA view · diff
git:20261018.e1bdf7b2026-10-18 e1bdf7b 5,933 BA view · diff
git:20261018.a9f01432026-10-18 a9f0143 5,929 BA view · diff
git:20261017.71791092026-10-17 7179109 5,796 BA view · diff
git:20261009.70985952026-10-09 7098595 5,604 BA view · diff
git:20261004.689abcd2026-10-04 689abcd 5,375 BA view · diff
git:20261004.a1bb0452026-10-04 a1bb045 5,364 BA view · diff
git:20261002.9392d802026-10-02 9392d80 5,037 BA view · diff
git:20261002.e4c4eca2026-10-02 e4c4eca 5,063 BA view

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 (5956 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

pche-broken-artist/forge-of-thought · 3 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4uh2t6cpenjigi5g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pche-broken-artist/forge-of-thought/critic-contract
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/885334ab23ce4d02c2060a1241e46a17ffc142befab791a5782dd548a2bd84b6

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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