name-the-boundary-between-siblings SKILL.md skillA

name-the-boundary-between-siblings from iamakbarsha1/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/name-the-boundary-between-siblings@git:20261024.d153cce

Pins git:20261024.d153cce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iamakbarsha1/whetstone
Path
skills/name-the-boundary-between-siblings/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261024.d153cce, committed Oct 24, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 17, 2026
Size
6,723 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
CC-BY-4.0

Use when adding, renaming, or rewriting the description of a skill, command, or agent that will sit beside others in the same registry — the moment you pack a description with the keywords an agent would search for. Keyword coverage makes an entry discoverable; it does not make it selectable. If an installed sibling already claims those words, the router sees two descriptions that both fit and has nothing to choose on. Grep your primary keywords first, then write a reciprocal boundary line…

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

# Name the Boundary Between Siblings

**Type:** Open-source — client-agnostic methodology, no project-specific detail.

**Created by akbarsha — https://github.com/iamakbarsha1**

Distilled from a case where a whole-repo security-audit skill shipped into a
library that already held a per-file one — both descriptions matched a bare
"security audit" request, and neither file mentioned the other.

**Licence:** Released under CC BY 4.0 — share and adapt for any purpose with
credit. Full text: `LICENSE` at the repository root.

**Feedback & Support:** If a rule here proves wrong or needs sharpening,
open an issue on the repository or contact the author at the profile link
above. If the problem is the agent not following a rule below rather than
the rule itself, that's an execution failure — acknowledge and correct it.

## The core rule

Discoverability and selectability are different properties. Packing a
description with every word an agent might search for makes the entry findable,
and in the same move maximises its overlap with everything already installed —
so an entry can satisfy every discoverability rule and still be unpickable,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/name-the-boundary-between-siblings@sha256:710c7e87948b3708

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.d153cce, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 4 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261024.d153cce latest2026-10-24 d153cce 6,723 BA view · diff
git:20261019.b3a119b2026-10-19 b3a119b 6,352 BA view · diff
git:20261017.72dd3e42026-10-17 72dd3e4 5,392 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 (6723 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

iamakbarsha1/whetstone · 4 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_53wq65on7haibkbx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iamakbarsha1/whetstone/name-the-boundary-between-siblings
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/710c7e87948b3708102a67b4fad18e448f194ae38a8d801f5a82c2b855797fab

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.

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