diverge SKILL.md skillA
diverge from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/diverge@git:20261008.697c89fPins git:20261008.697c89f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
codex/diverge/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 26, 2026
- Size
- 6,684 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Generates 3-5 conceptually distinct approaches (Novel, Surprising, Diverse, Conventional) and holds for selection before implementing. Use before committing to an approach when a task has more than one non-obvious solution; --codex delegates the brainstorm to a fresh subagent.
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
# Diverge Interrupt the default path of jumping to the most probable — and least creative — solution. ## Heritage and scope An original Open Science Skills workflow grounded in **Creative Preference Optimization** (Ismayilzada et al., 2025; background in [`references/creative-preference-optimization.md`](references/creative-preference-optimization.md)). Standard preference alignment (RLHF/DPO) optimizes for the most human-expected output, which is by construction the least surprising one. The paper's most accessible remedy — its own "brainstorm-then-select" baseline — needs no fine-tuning: force divergence before convergence, require that at least one approach is surprising and one is novel, and defer quality and implementation until after selection. Read the background note only when the user asks for the rationale or when refining the creativity criteria. Use it wherever more than one non-obvious solution exists — creative, architectural, or analytical work — and not for rote tasks with one correct answer (fix this syntax error). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/diverge@sha256:60106d4981f60e6eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.697c89f, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jul 26, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 15 days.
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| git:20261008.697c89f latest | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 6,684 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.39e8276 | 2026-09-05 | 39e8276 | 7,191 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 7,165 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.0b54e42 | 2026-08-08 | 0b54e42 | 3,759 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.80b1ab4 | 2026-08-06 | 80b1ab4 | 3,757 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.ec471db | 2026-07-26 | ec471db | 3,159 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 (6684 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
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6eaeigh7ofmgqy77 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/diverge GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/60106d4981f60e6e285753414922e268a71e735462d6d42080f167ecbbaac72a
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.
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