wonder SKILL.md skillA

wonder from donald-ada/workinggenius is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/wonder@git:20261031.af1ac5b

Pins git:20261031.af1ac5b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
donald-ada/workinggenius
Path
skills/wonder/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261031.af1ac5b, committed Oct 31, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 14, 2026
Size
4,461 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Question the work before doing it — the interview that turns a raw idea into a confirmed problem statement. Use when the user asks to run the interview on a tracked piece of work (`/wonder`, or in words), or when the user asks to start the Working Genius flow — or to be questioned — on a new idea. An ordinary request to build something is not an invitation to start the flow.

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

The genius of questioning. Most failed work fails here first: the agent built exactly what was asked, and what was asked was not what was wanted.

The concept: **confirm the problem before designing anything.** Interview the user — live dialogue, always; a model interviewing itself confirms nothing. How you interview is your judgment:

- Ask only what the user alone can answer — everything the repo, the history or the docs can settle is homework, not a question. Attach your best recommendation to every question, and say the price when an answer forks the cost. The one question no homework can settle is how they will judge it done: the run they would make, the number they would look at, the case they would try first. It goes into the problem statement in their words, because a success the interviewer wrote and they nodded at confirms the interviewer's picture, and the bar they actually hold arrives otherwise at close-out, when meeting it costs the most.
- **Ask in rounds** — a batch of independent questions in one message, the next round grown from the answers. The one-question drip costs round-trips and patience; a wall of everything is a form, not an interview.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/wonder@sha256:28c45b19a7ede6eb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.af1ac5b, 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 10 versions of this file, between Aug 14, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 9 days.

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git:20261031.af1ac5b latest2026-10-31 af1ac5b 4,461 BA view · diff
git:20261003.51d97392026-10-03 51d9739 4,372 BA view · diff
git:20261003.1b3586a2026-10-03 1b3586a 4,382 BA view · diff
git:20260925.a1403022026-09-25 a140302 4,063 BA view · diff
git:20260925.8d07e012026-09-25 8d07e01 4,013 BA view · diff
git:20260906.f0d3db42026-09-06 f0d3db4 3,864 BA view · diff
git:20260906.efaff192026-09-06 efaff19 3,883 BA view · diff
git:20260906.c24fbe52026-09-06 c24fbe5 4,606 BA view · diff
git:20260902.3b8b19d2026-09-02 3b8b19d 4,154 BA view · diff
git:20260814.aa9bc302026-08-14 aa9bc30 3,210 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 (4461 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

donald-ada/workinggenius · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7qmnipeq3tq7jesk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=donald-ada/workinggenius/wonder
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28c45b19a7ede6eb522a985eb3aff6bb9583848d41636a8aa142858c3534b2e5

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.

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