wonder-pill SKILL.md skillA
wonder-pill from ara-mkr/wonder-pill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ara-mkr/wonder-pill/wonder-pill@git:20260902.565315fPins git:20260902.565315f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ara-mkr/wonder-pill
- Path
SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260902.565315f, committed Sep 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 31, 2026
- Size
- 16,240 bytes
- Repository stars
- 133
- License
- MIT
Turns open-ended requests into things to think WITH instead of answers to accept. Audits the hidden assumptions inside a topic, inverts them into sharp "what if" provocations, branches each one outward, and delivers a fully-expanded mind map image plus the written wonderings. Fire this when the person signals they want to open up a space and think alongside you — "wonder about X", "what are the weird angles on X", "help me think about what this could be", "I want to explore, not decide yet" —…
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
# Wonder Pill ## What this skill is for Ordinary brainstorming gets treated like a search query: find the nearest well-trodden answers, rank them, hand them over. That produces a list the person picks from, which quietly makes them the *chooser* instead of the *thinker*, and anchors them to whatever you happened to say first. This skill produces something different: **provocations to think with.** Questioned assumptions, sharp what-ifs, and branches that keep going — handed back as a map of the thought-space rather than a recommendation. The person stays the thinker. Nothing converges unless they ask it to. ## The one failure mode that matters The thing that kills this skill is **"generic wild"** — what-ifs that *sound* expansive but have no hook to pull on. "What if plants were different?" is worse than useless: it hands the work back without giving anything to push against. "What if plants could hear?" is alive, because you can immediately feel what would have to change. Everything below exists to force specificity. The central mechanism: > **Never invent a what-if freely. Always derive it by inverting a named assumption.** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ara-mkr/wonder-pill/wonder-pill@sha256:3971511f41021765The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260902.565315f, 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_6h6j57t64ct27hdl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 2, 2026, about one every day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260902.565315f latest | 2026-09-02 | 565315f | 16,240 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.25e438f | 2026-09-01 | 25e438f | 13,787 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260831.60f8adf | 2026-08-31 | 60f8adf | 12,218 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 (16240 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
ara-mkr/wonder-pill · 133 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6h6j57t64ct27hdl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ara-mkr/wonder-pill/wonder-pill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3971511f4102176518a0279cb79462962d299cb3bd2159d5ab76a3ab3e4ab8b2
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.