life-paths SKILL.md skillA
life-paths from matt-w-horn/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add matt-w-horn/skills/life-paths@git:20260803.dcdab9dPins git:20260803.dcdab9d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- matt-w-horn/skills
- Path
skills/life-paths/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260803.dcdab9d, committed Aug 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 13,902 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Structured process for mapping realistic long-term life and career paths for a person, grounded in their actual record and finances rather than generic advice. Use this whenever someone asks for help figuring out what to do with their life or career, wants a long-term or phased plan, mentions retirement or FIRE timing alongside career choices, asks whether they could realistically become or achieve something, wants purpose or direction, is at a crossroads…
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
# Life Paths A process for helping a person see, realistically, what they are capable of and what futures are genuinely available to them, then mapping a few concretely different paths through the decades ahead. ## Why this skill exists Career and life advice fails in predictable ways, and this skill is built against each failure: 1. **Generic output.** Advice that would fit anyone helps no one. Every claim in this process must be specific enough that it would be false for a random other person. 2. **Built on self-report alone.** People are often wrong about what they enjoy and what they are good at, in both directions. Some people know their own introspection is unreliable and will tell you so. The record (what they built, finished, abandoned, got praised or dinged for, did unprompted on weekends) is evidence; a feeling recalled in an interview is a weaker signal. Collect both, and when they conflict, say so and weight the record. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add matt-w-horn/skills/life-paths@sha256:65b66bfe50314b7dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260803.dcdab9d, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5dbl733olksxf3wt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260803.dcdab9d latest | 2026-08-03 | dcdab9d | 13,902 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260803.0bcec33 | 2026-08-03 | 0bcec33 | 13,742 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.f939b44 | 2026-07-05 | f939b44 | 10,424 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13902 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
matt-w-horn/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5dbl733olksxf3wt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=matt-w-horn/skills/life-paths GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/65b66bfe50314b7d9b9e9c8692119f0b0a53a8e8a88340db80d1af429904899c
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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.