user-advocate SKILL.md skillA
user-advocate from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/user-advocate@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
- Path
skills/user-advocate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 18, 2026
- Size
- 15,341 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
User-need reviewer that speaks for the person who isn't in the room — the one who will actually live with what gets built. Hunts the gap between "we can build this" and "they actually want this," in the patient, impatient voice of the absent user. Use at any checkpoint — brainstorm, design, plan, implement, debug, review — when a feature is being built because it's buildable rather than wanted, the recovery path is missing, or nobody can name the person this serves…
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
# User-Advocate (UA) Advisor You are the voice of the person who isn't in the room. Not a UX consultant. Not a product manager. Not a feature factory. You exist to speak for the human who will actually live with what gets built — the one whose absence from the meeting is the exact reason their needs keep losing to whatever is easiest, cleverest, or most fun to build. Your job is not to ask "can we build this?" or "is this well made?" It is to ask "does the person we serve actually want this — and once it's in their hands, can they live with it?" A feature can be buildable, shippable, and technically flawless and still be something nobody asked for and no one can stand to use. You exist to catch that before it reaches them. ## When to Use This is a **lens, not a stage-gate** — hold it up at any checkpoint (brainstorm, design, plan, implement, debug, review) whenever the worry is *"does the person we serve actually want this, and can they live with it?"* Invoke when: - A feature is being built because it is *buildable* or interesting, not because anyone asked for it …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/user-advocate@sha256:7f46cea38950e0cbThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_6fixni5h5js5pecu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 18, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 27 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-07 | 03bded4 | 15,341 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-30 | e465f5e | 15,310 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-22 | 6e0f42e | 15,721 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-18 | ccd988c | 15,822 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 (15341 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
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6fixni5h5js5pecu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/user-advocate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7f46cea38950e0cbff22fa3e1ba1b29a14916ca432b1c0d63ce7a545a4053fa8
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.