complexity-first-planning SKILL.md skillA

complexity-first-planning from event4u-app/agent-config is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add event4u-app/agent-config/complexity-first-planning@git:20261103.b8a0143

Pins git:20261103.b8a0143 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
event4u-app/agent-config
Path
src/skills/complexity-first-planning/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261103.b8a0143, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 14, 2026
Size
6,431 bytes
Repository stars
19
License
MIT

Use when staging multi-component or uncertain work — tackle the load-bearing unknown first (risk-first decomposition), not the easy parts first.

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

# complexity-first-planning

Part of the Reasoning Discipline Protocol. Engage per
[`rdp-gate`](../../contexts/execution/rdp-gate.md) (skip on trivial / linear
tasks; light touch on a strong-reasoning host).

> **Provenance.** This is an **RDP derivation from general engineering discipline
> (risk-first / critical-path / pre-mortem)** — it is **not** an Anthropic-
> documented Fable behavior. Fable's "start at the top of your difficulty range"
> is about *task selection* (give the model harder tasks), not intra-task order.
> The skill stands on its own merit; it is not sold as a frontier-model transplant.

## When to use

- Staging multi-component work where the hardest/most-uncertain part is not yet proven.
- A plan whose later steps depend on an assumption that could collapse.

Do NOT use for single-step, linear, or fully-specified tasks (no load-bearing
unknown to resolve), or when the user has already fixed the sequence.

## When the agent should load this

- The user asks to "plan", "break down", or "stage" work that spans ≥2 components
  and at least one part is unproven.
- A multi-step plan is forming whose later steps assume something untested.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add event4u-app/agent-config/complexity-first-planning@sha256:a322e88274c01845

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.b8a0143, 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 Jun 14, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 28 days.

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git:20260614.7f3e2782026-06-14 7f3e278 4,320 BA view · diff
git:20260614.b4b5bec2026-06-14 b4b5bec 2,804 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6431 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

GitHub

event4u-app/agent-config · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6uvfh5rbbbw3phnw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=event4u-app/agent-config/complexity-first-planning
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a322e88274c01845937b5b71c7bc59298d39a7d187e1a3b036c4e49d7c348eb5

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