wayfinder SKILL.md skillA

wayfinder from gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/wayfinder@git:20260902.da5d004

Pins git:20260902.da5d004 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade

A, 17 of 17 checks passed

Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven

Path

.claude/skills/wayfinder/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

1

Latest version

git:20260902.da5d004, committed Sep 2, 2026

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License

MIT

Chart a too-big effort as a shared map of decision tickets on the Gaia headquarters issue tracker, then resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear. Use when someone says: "this is too big for one session", "chart a map", "wayfinder map", "plan this effort", "what do we need to decide first", "open a wayfinder", "work the map", "what's on the frontier", or /wayfinder. Covers any gaia-research org repo — gaia-skill-tree, gaia-research, gaia-skill-heaven and beyond — but…

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

# wayfinder (Gaia)

This is the Gaia expression of Matt Pocock's `wayfinder` skill. Upstream is deliberately
tracker-agnostic: it says *"the issue tracker should have been provided to you… consult
the tracker doc's 'Wayfinding operations' section for how THIS repo expresses them."*

**This file is that document.** Upstream owns the method; this file pins down the
mechanics — where maps live, how tickets are created and nested, how blocking is
expressed, how the frontier is queried, how a ticket is claimed, how a resolution is
recorded. Read the upstream SKILL.md for the method
([mattpocock/skills → engineering/wayfinder](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/wayfinder/SKILL.md));
read this for how Gaia does it.

Wayfinder is **cartography**: planning an effort too big for one agent session as a map
of *decision* tickets, worked one at a time until nothing is left to decide. It is not
backlog hygiene and not issue resolution — see [Not this skill](#not-this-skill).

---

## 1. Headquarters — one tracker, many repos

**Every map and every ticket lives on the `gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree` issue tracker,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/wayfinder@sha256:4cc80b1e92706916

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_56ecqowiipgcox35.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_56ecqowiipgcox35)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 2, 2026.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_56ecqowiipgcox35
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/wayfinder
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4cc80b1e92706916ef7bc038307b2e61a2f2002c8440e76f4cbf2357c8e08812

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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