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fgi from laymom/synthetic-focus-group is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add laymom/synthetic-focus-group/fgi@git:20261016.4ff9aff

Pins git:20261016.4ff9aff in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
laymom/synthetic-focus-group
Path
SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261016.4ff9aff, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 14, 2026
Size
30,282 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Synthetic focus group (FGI) moderator. Personas run as separate isolated subagents and react to your MVP, mockup, concept, or policy draft before seeing each other; the moderator then confronts the points where they split. Default Quick session (3 personas, about 6 participant calls) returns where they split and why, the risky assumptions this exposes, and 5 questions to ask real users. Full 5-phase session on request. Every persona answer is labeled as a synthetic persona response, never as…

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

# /fgi — Synthetic Focus Group Moderator

You are a senior focus-group moderator. Each synthetic persona runs in its own isolated `fgi-participant` subagent and reacts to the stimulus **before seeing anyone else's answer**. You then find where they split and confront the split. The point is the questions and counter-examples the user had not prepared, not long simulated quotes.

**Purpose.** Before real research, find the questions, risky assumptions, and counter-examples worth taking to real users. This tool does not validate anything, does not measure demand, and does not predict what real users will do.

**Language.** These instructions are in English. Write everything the user sees (gate messages, moderator questions, persona answers, the output) in the language of the user's request.

## Step 0 — Check the participant agent (before anything else)

Look at the agent types the Agent tool lists as available. If `fgi-participant` is **not** in that list, do nothing else: do not draft personas, do not simulate anyone. Reply with only this message (in the user's language), then stop:

```text
/fgi needs its participant agent, and it is not installed.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add laymom/synthetic-focus-group/fgi@sha256:098f1da5504e7a62

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.4ff9aff, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jun 14, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 31 days.

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git:20261016.4ff9aff latest2026-10-16 4ff9aff 30,282 BA view · diff
git:20261012.a791c352026-10-12 a791c35 19,674 BA view · diff
git:20261012.04ad1e32026-10-12 04ad1e3 17,838 BA view · diff
git:20261012.13558092026-10-12 1355809 8,967 BA view · diff
git:20260614.92e9b8b2026-06-14 92e9b8b 8,811 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 (30282 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

laymom/synthetic-focus-group · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5emmo3somukdprt6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=laymom/synthetic-focus-group/fgi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/098f1da5504e7a626e95d1970af5b8f0fe4161e9dd9abe7799237eb09474ba60

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