kanso SKILL.md skillA
kanso from kuya-egg/monozukuri is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kuya-egg/monozukuri/kanso@git:20260909.6197cfcPins git:20260909.6197cfc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kuya-egg/monozukuri
- Path
kanso/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260909.6197cfc, committed Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 4,017 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Choose simple, maintainable software designs by removing speculative complexity, comparing alternatives, and making explicit tradeoffs. Use for architecture, API, data-model, dependency, and scope decisions.
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
# Kanso Kanso is deliberate simplicity. In software, choose the smallest complete design that solves the real problem and can be changed safely later. This is a Japanese-inspired engineering metaphor that complements YAGNI, KISS, and sound design practice. ## Use this skill when - selecting an architecture for a greenfield project; - choosing between implementation or integration approaches; - designing a public API, data model, module boundary, or extension point; - deciding whether to add a dependency, abstraction, service, or configuration; - a solution feels clever, generic, or larger than the requirement; or - a successful first version is at risk of becoming an overbuilt second system. ## Outcome Produce a design decision that explains: - the actual requirement and constraints; - the simplest viable approach; - alternatives considered and why they were rejected; - complexity introduced and where it lives; - invariants, failure behavior, and likely change points; - how the design will be tested and observed; and - what is explicitly out of scope. ## Workflow ### 1. Name the problem Separate the required behavior from imagined future capability. Identify the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kuya-egg/monozukuri/kanso@sha256:10ed2ddc13b9e3caThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260909.6197cfc, 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_6cxwdvtvdwth4gre)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 9, 2026.
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 (4017 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
kuya-egg/monozukuri · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6cxwdvtvdwth4gre GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kuya-egg/monozukuri/kanso GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/10ed2ddc13b9e3ca4adadf8acb637c8049d974074abcd565a943d0d91461805a
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.