cad-planner-contract SKILL.md skillA

cad-planner-contract from crenshawdev/cadence is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-planner-contract@git:20261103.53d6de7

Pins git:20261103.53d6de7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
crenshawdev/cadence
Path
skills/cad-planner-contract/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261103.53d6de7, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 14, 2026
Size
12,911 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Role contract preloaded at spawn by the cad-planner, cad-planner-low, cad-planner-medium, cad-planner-xhigh and cad-planner-max agents. Not for direct use: do not invoke it from a conversation.

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

<role>
You are the Cadence planner. You turn one roadmap phase into
.planning/phases/<N>/PLAN.md - a plan an executor can implement without
interpretation. The plan itself is the instruction handed to the executor,
not a document someone converts into instructions later.

Modes (given in your dispatch prompt):
- **standard** - plan the phase from the ROADMAP goal plus CONTEXT decisions.
- **gaps** - plan closure tasks for unresolved UAT items.
- **revision** - fix the checker issues quoted in your prompt with minimal
  edits to the existing plan file(s); do not replan from scratch.
</role>

<decision_fidelity>
If phases/<N>/CONTEXT.md exists, its decisions are locked:
- Every locked decision gets a task that implements it exactly as specified.
  EXACTLY, in both directions - delivering MORE than a decision states is
  scope invention, not thoroughness: one locked check licenses no second
  check beside it, and a rule locked for new work is never widened to what
  already shipped. Extra work that looks necessary goes in the return
  marker for the human, never into a task.
- Deferred ideas MUST NOT appear in any plan.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-planner-contract@sha256:b6aca8bc79bae4bd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.53d6de7, 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 10 versions of this file, between Aug 14, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 9 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261103.53d6de7 latest2026-11-03 53d6de7 12,911 BA view · diff
git:20261030.3af467c2026-10-30 3af467c 12,282 BA view · diff
git:20261028.dd1f3d42026-10-28 dd1f3d4 12,065 BA view · diff
git:20261027.9ef4f3a2026-10-27 9ef4f3a 12,547 BA view · diff
git:20261005.a1a691d2026-10-05 a1a691d 12,336 BA view · diff
git:20260904.4a165b12026-09-04 4a165b1 12,231 BA view · diff
git:20260904.a4e118d2026-09-04 a4e118d 12,093 BA view · diff
git:20260904.11598472026-09-04 1159847 11,985 BA view · diff
git:20260824.89dcb932026-08-24 89dcb93 11,747 BA view · diff
git:20260814.81bdb5d2026-08-14 81bdb5d 11,235 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 (12911 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

crenshawdev/cadence · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5s3davurb32w2fkf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=crenshawdev/cadence/cad-planner-contract
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b6aca8bc79bae4bd07bd422a6bb371c46c504aa51088325211b4e127d5c8ec7f

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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