recording-friction SKILL.md skillA
recording-friction from protolabsai/protoagent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/recording-friction@git:20261002.7da2398Pins git:20261002.7da2398 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- protolabsai/protoagent
- Path
plugins/friction/skills/recording-friction/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261002.7da2398, committed Oct 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,102 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
When and how to record friction with `record_friction` — the moment a tool is missing, awkward, or wrong, and the moment you catch yourself taking a long way round. Read this when you hit a rough edge, when you reach for a shell to do something that should be a tool, or when you are triaging the friction backlog.
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
# Recording friction The friction ledger is how this system improves itself. Auto-capture already logs tool errors and shell commands that duplicate a tool you have (`cat` when `read_file` is bound); `git`, tests and builds through a shell tool are normal work, not friction. It cannot see the thing only you know — that a tool was *there* and *awkward*, that an error message sent you the wrong way, or that you got the right answer by the wrong route. **The bar is low on purpose.** An unrecorded friction point costs the next agent the same hour it cost you. A slightly noisy ledger costs one line. ## Record it at the moment it happens Not at the end of the turn, not "if it comes up again". You will have moved on and the specifics — the exact path, the exact error, the call you wished existed — are the whole value. A summary written from memory an hour later is a complaint; one written in the moment is a spec. ## Which channel `kind="harness"` — **the tooling should change.** - A tool you needed did not exist. - A tool existed but made you do it in N calls when one would have done. - An error message was wrong, vague, or pointed at the wrong cause. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/recording-friction@sha256:40b88d80c45a7279The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.7da2398, 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 3 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 15 days.
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| git:20261002.7da2398 latest | 2026-10-02 | 7da2398 | 4,102 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.43db643 | 2026-09-25 | 43db643 | 3,787 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.57e1092 | 2026-09-01 | 57e1092 | 3,652 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4102 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
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Source
protolabsai/protoagent · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5wxwffvags527sgg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=protolabsai/protoagent/recording-friction GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/40b88d80c45a7279ac9ab40569a1fa3672e7667b3102f868b42d1ba257236bcf
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.