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golden-principles from rjmurillo/ai-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add rjmurillo/ai-agents/golden-principles@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: rjmurillo/ai-agents
Path: .claude/skills/golden-principles/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: v1.0.0, committed Sep 25, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 29, 2026
Size: 5,907 bytes
Repository stars: 48
License: MIT

Scan repository for golden principle violations with agent-readable remediation. Enforces GP-001 through GP-008 from .agents/governance/golden-principles.md. Use when auditing compliance, preparing PRs, or running garbage collection scans.

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

# Golden Principles

Scan the repository for violations of mechanically enforced golden principles.
Produces remediation instructions that agents can act on directly.

<!-- vendor-portability: declared. This skill enforces GP-001 through GP-008 defined in .agents/governance/golden-principles.md and cites that document plus .claude/skills/ siblings. The governance file is the upstream rule source; a vendored install without it loses the canonical principle text, while the bundled scanner still applies its built-in GP-001 and GP-003 through GP-006 checks against the consumer's files (GP-002 is enforced elsewhere, not by this scanner). Issue #2050. -->

Inspired by [OpenAI Harness Engineering](https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/):

> "We started encoding what we call 'golden principles' directly into the repository
> and built a recurring cleanup process."

## Triggers

| Trigger Phrase | Operation |
|----------------|-----------|
| `scan golden principles` | Full principle compliance scan |
| `check principle compliance` | Scan with summary report |
| `golden principle violations` | Scan and list violations |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add rjmurillo/ai-agents/golden-principles@sha256:234e422afa55b4e8

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_55akshwpcnbirqhe.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_55akshwpcnbirqhe)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 29, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 22 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v1.0.0 latest	2026-09-25	3fda96c	5,907 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-08-27	35e855b	5,739 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-08-01	9aa8e50	5,763 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-07-22	e7a63be	5,765 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-06-29	1bb6ebe	5,790 B	A	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 (5907 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

rjmurillo/ai-agents · 48 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_55akshwpcnbirqhe
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rjmurillo/ai-agents/golden-principles
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/234e422afa55b4e80159f36c1b83fa19d402fd4ff789b0bdf75bce0f841f96ed

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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