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decision-rationale-gaps from outlinedriven/outline-driven-development is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/decision-rationale-gaps@git:20260927.a8fe24d

Pins git:20260927.a8fe24d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: outlinedriven/outline-driven-development
Path: .devin/skills/decision-rationale-gaps/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260927.a8fe24d, committed Sep 27, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 2, 2026
Size: 5,319 bytes
Repository stars: 55
License: Apache-2.0

Use when a current decision needs pressure-testing until the rationale is clear to a skeptic. Not for tasks requiring source or remote-system changes.

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

# Press decision

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | Right after a decision was made, especially one laid out without argument |
| Authority | Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation. |
| Side effect | None (advisory); flags the decision for re-review on an unexplained gap |
| Done | Every closed gap traces to the user's own explanation; open gaps named specifically and carried forward as flags; rationale never supplied by the skill |

## Inputs

- Decision text: The decision statement to press. Required. Must be the decision that was made, not the reasoning behind it.
- **Context** (optional): Any surrounding context about what options were considered and which was picked.

## Procedure

1. **Restate neutrally**: State the decision without justification. Do not supply its reasoning or let the user borrow reasoning that was never given. Done when: the decision is restated without justification.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/decision-rationale-gaps@sha256:f0b789ed123914a5

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.a8fe24d, 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_5j2fzuihgaqmivc3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5j2fzuihgaqmivc3)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 27, 2026, about one every 13 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260927.a8fe24d latest	2026-09-27	a8fe24d	5,319 B	A	view · diff
git:20260905.1f63894	2026-09-05	1f63894	5,139 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.1fe14a3	2026-09-02	1fe14a3	3,788 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 (5319 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

outlinedriven/outline-driven-development · 55 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5j2fzuihgaqmivc3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/decision-rationale-gaps
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f0b789ed123914a56b49fb49f62d84dd72f1efdd621c793dcc0e4b3fadfd5fae

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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