synthesis-quick-answers SKILL.md skillA
synthesis-quick-answers from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-quick-answers@v2.0.1Pins v2.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills
- Path
skills/synthesis-quick-answers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v2.0.1, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 2, 2026
- Size
- 4,418 bytes
- Repository stars
- 23
- License
- Apache-2.0
Run a cheap, read-mostly companion session for ad hoc workspace lookups so focused sessions stay on task. Every answer names its source and a Verified, Cached or Uncertain tier. Use for a quick-answers, FAQ or lookup companion; not for decisions, drafting or sending messages.
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
# Synthesis Quick Answers — Lookup Companion Pattern A cheap, read-mostly companion session that answers ad hoc workspace lookups, so focused project sessions keep their context for their own work. It owns no workflow: it reads across the workspace and writes almost nothing back. ## Binding rules 1. **Classify the question before searching**, then query only the source that answers that shape of question. Loading a whole project's context for one fact defeats a cheap companion. 2. **Verify anything volatile before asserting it**: schedules, status, ship state, dates. Context files and session summaries are caches, per `synthesis-grounding-discipline`'s cache-vs-truth rule; a fast stale answer is trusted precisely because it is fast. 3. **Every answer ends with a one-line grounding trailer** naming the source and a tier: **Verified** (confirmed live this turn), **Cached** (read from a file without re-verifying; give its as-of date) or **Uncertain** (no source found). A volatile fact answered as Cached is a defect. 4. **Answer tersely:** the fact first, one sentence of context only if it is load-bearing. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-quick-answers@sha256:aec12056e1bd0595The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.1, 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 7 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| v2.0.1 latest | 2026-10-06 | 22a5e58 | 4,418 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 227204f | 4,258 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.1 | 2026-09-03 | db1bd82 | 13,035 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-09-03 | ccab51b | 12,619 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-09-02 | 01ba406 | 13,656 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-09-02 | 93d08da | 13,486 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-02 | f0f6593 | 10,561 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4418 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
synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6x5zilylfg5ln36a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-quick-answers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aec12056e1bd0595c1f9a710bd5d7a3ed671e54654017eb5b5f1f98a69899e61
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.