creating-corpus SKILL.md skillA
creating-corpus from chrisgagne/grounded-forge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrisgagne/grounded-forge/creating-corpus@git:20260518.8beb37fPins git:20260518.8beb37f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrisgagne/grounded-forge
- Path
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- Latest version
- git:20260518.8beb37f, committed May 18, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Scaffold a new corpus under corpus.commons/ or corpus.local/: walk the operator through tier, naming, and task axes, then hand off to scripts/create-corpus.py for the filesystem work. The output is a self-contained corpus tree (sources, references, distillations, lenses, dist, distros) ready to receive material into sources/ingest/.
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
# Creating Corpus A corpus is the unit of self-contained material the matrix operates on: sources, references, distillations, lenses, builds, and packaged releases all live inside one folder. This skill scopes a new corpus—tier, domain, naming, task axes—and then invokes `scripts/create-corpus.py` to do the deterministic filesystem scaffold. Dialogue skill, not a generator. The operator is in the conversation throughout. The skill produces scoping decisions captured in the corpus-level `README.md`; the script produces the directory tree. ## When to use - The operator is forking the repo and wants to start a new corpus for their own domain. - The operator already has one corpus and wants to start a second under a different domain or scope. - The operator is unsure whether the work belongs in `corpus.commons/` or `corpus.local/` and wants to talk through the tier decision before committing. - The operator has rough idea of what they want to read into a corpus but hasn't named the task axes yet. ## When not to use …
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How to install
mdr add chrisgagne/grounded-forge/creating-corpus@sha256:c34777401c675c7aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260518.8beb37f, 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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Source
chrisgagne/grounded-forge · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
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