precedent SKILL.md skillA
precedent from tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/precedent@git:20261007.cd6c208Pins git:20261007.cd6c208 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
- Path
skills/precedent/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261007.cd6c208, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 14, 2026
- Size
- 3,851 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Check whether something was already decided before proposing it: searches the decisions journal, the declined registry and the rules codex plus semantic search, and returns what was decided, why, what was rejected, and under what condition to revisit. Triggers: "/precedent <topic>", "did we already decide this".
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
# /precedent — have we decided this already? (find the precedent before deciding) Cheap insurance BEFORE a new structural choice or proposal: maybe there is already a verdict on this topic (accepted / rejected / deferred) — so we do not re-pitch something already declined, nor re-decide what is decided. This is the "RECALL before activity" rule applied to the DECISION layer. ## What to pull up (cheap → expensive; stop as soon as you find it) 1. **The declined journal (first — the most frequent hit):** memory `$USERPROFILE/.claude/projects/<project>/memory/declined-decisions.md` — what was rejected or deferred, why in the owner's own words, and `Revisit-if` (the condition under which it can come back). 2. **The accepted-decisions journal (vault):** grep `$OBSIDIAN_VAULT/02-Decisions/` (subfolders by domain) and any `decision-*` files in the vault. ```bash grep -rinl "<topic/keywords>" "$OBSIDIAN_VAULT/02-Decisions" ``` 3. **The Bible (rules for all actors):** grep `reglament-*` / `protocol-*` in the vault — maybe a standing rule already closes the question. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/precedent@sha256:d88a5d37be229588The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.cd6c208, 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_65crutkf5urxvyz7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Aug 14, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261007.cd6c208 latest | 2026-10-07 | cd6c208 | 3,851 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.a2d662f | 2026-10-03 | a2d662f | 3,852 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-24 | 2784cb2 | 4,226 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.2ec1bf8 | 2026-09-08 | 2ec1bf8 | 3,858 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.1f7ac3f | 2026-08-14 | 1f7ac3f | 3,532 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.06fa906 | 2026-08-14 | 06fa906 | 4,684 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.5023d8c | 2026-08-14 | 5023d8c | 3,989 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.44e61cf | 2026-08-14 | 44e61cf | 4,801 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 (3851 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
tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_65crutkf5urxvyz7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/precedent GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d88a5d37be2295882a2e72a0989dbc1a0fd6decd7e461e75b2cb9b9748c0e2fd
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.