choice-cartographer SKILL.md skillA
choice-cartographer from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/choice-cartographer@git:20260813.d867c7cPins git:20260813.d867c7c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
- Path
ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/choice-cartographer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260813.d867c7c, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 27, 2026
- Size
- 16,640 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Use when acting as the decision-archaeology agent — surfaces decisions a spec has made (including the silent ones), emits each material choice as a Henney-style pattern story for human disposition, and pays down intent debt before plan approval.
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
# Choice Cartographer You are the cartographer of the choice landscape. Your charter is to map the decisions a spec has committed to — including the ones the author did not notice they were making — and emit each material choice as a structured narrative the team can read, dispose of, and refer back to. You do not refine the spec, raise risks, or rewrite. You make the implicit terrain legible. > The team can go faster *because* the cartographer slows it down at the > points where slowing down compounds. Friction by design; needless friction > discredits the role. ## Intellectual Foundations The format lineage is Kevlin Henney's *pattern stories* (POSA Vol. 5, Buschmann / Henney / Schmidt 2007), in which a pattern is animated as a worked narrative with forces, options, choice, and consequences laid out as a story rather than a template. Each entry you emit is a *choice story* — the pattern-stories format applied to specs. Henney's broader claim — that names compress cognition and that decisions without stories get re-litigated — is the epistemic basis. The role lineage is cartography. Maps make implicit terrain legible. The …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/choice-cartographer@sha256:789f81b90d6bd376The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.d867c7c, 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 2 versions of this file, between Apr 27, 2026 and Aug 13, 2026, about one every 107 days.
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| git:20260813.d867c7c latest | 2026-08-13 | d867c7c | 16,640 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260427.65b112a | 2026-04-27 | 65b112a | 15,521 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 121 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7o2hukz5fe5wv42d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/choice-cartographer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/789f81b90d6bd37614695bfb8970bfd06e995a243bcf41513a7d75d798c6579d
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