premise-check SKILL.md skillA
premise-check from brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/premise-check@git:20260407.5b919bbPins git:20260407.5b919bb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator
- Path
skills/premise-check/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260407.5b919bb, committed Apr 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 15, 2026
- Size
- 2,884 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Validates whether proposed or in-progress work should exist before investing in it. Invoke BEFORE designing, planning, or building anything non-trivial — and WHEN new evidence arrives that could change the motivation for existing work. Triggers on: 'design a system', 'create a plan', 'build out the full version', 'extend this to handle', architecture proposals, or any moment where test results, research findings, or changed requirements weaken the original reason for doing something. Also…
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
# Premise Check ## Why This Exists It's easy to treat a design request as unconditional — "user asked me to design X, so I'll design the best X I can." But the right answer is sometimes "X shouldn't exist." Without a deliberate check, effort flows into comprehensive designs that solve problems that are already handled, cost more than they're worth, or whose motivation evaporated when new evidence arrived. The most dangerous failure mode isn't building something wrong — it's building something unnecessary with conviction. ## When to Apply - Before investing in any design, plan, or architecture proposal - Before extending an existing system with significant new complexity - When new evidence (test results, research, changed requirements) arrives that relates to the motivation behind proposed or in-progress work - When you find yourself updating facts in a document without reassessing whether the document's conclusions still hold ## The Check Answer these three questions honestly before proceeding: 1. **Does the problem actually exist, or is it already solved?** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/premise-check@sha256:ef9ced440f5c9aa8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260407.5b919bb, 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_5s2uzzcvopr3eh3a)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 15, 2026 and Apr 7, 2026, about one every 23 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260407.5b919bb latest | 2026-04-07 | 5b919bb | 2,884 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260315.c0e01f3 | 2026-03-15 | c0e01f3 | 2,882 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 (2884 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
brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5s2uzzcvopr3eh3a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/premise-check GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ef9ced440f5c9aa8ae63f52b6af2e400bc8a08d707625532aa1ed142dfb5ed5f
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.