journal SKILL.md skillA

journal from pipulate/pipulate is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pipulate/pipulate/journal@git:20260928.2818cd4

Pins git:20260928.2818cd4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pipulate/pipulate
Path
.agents/skills/journal/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260928.2818cd4, committed Sep 28, 2026
Size
1,954 bytes
Repository stars
14
License
AGPL-3.0

The journal behind Pipulate, indexed. More than a thousand dated articles explain why each piece of the machinery exists, and references/index.md lists them newest first with a fetchable raw-Markdown URL per entry. Use when a question asks why something in this repo is built the way it is, when a comment in the code cites a date or a deed number, or when a change needs reasoning that the git log does not carry.

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

# journal: the reasoning behind the machinery

This repository holds the machinery. The reasoning lives in a running journal
on a separate site, one entry per working session, and this skill is the
bridge to it. Nothing here duplicates the code; the index points and the site
holds. It is what a changelog would be if a changelog recorded why.

## What is here

- `references/index.md`, every entry newest first. The first twenty carry full
  URLs; the rest are bare slugs with a date and a size, and the file's own
  header prints the pattern that turns a slug into a page.

## How to use it

1. Find the entry in `references/index.md` by date, title or slug. A date in
   a code comment (`banked 2026-09-26`) or a deed number (`deed 1596`) names
   a session, and that day's entries carry the why.
2. Build the URL with the pattern at the top of the index (today it is
   `https://mikelev.in/futureproof/<slug>/index.md`); the site serves raw
   Markdown at that path.
3. Fetch only the entry the question needs. One entry can run to 200k
   tokens. The index is a menu, never a payload.
4. Inside a checkout, `scripts/xp.py` turns a pasted list of slugs into the
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pipulate/pipulate/journal@sha256:aefb9d9b6db9bbf6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260928.2818cd4, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_7sxxj5hyp4zo4twm.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7sxxj5hyp4zo4twm)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 28, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260928.2818cd4 latest2026-09-28 2818cd4 1,954 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 (1954 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

pipulate/pipulate · 14 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7sxxj5hyp4zo4twm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pipulate/pipulate/journal
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aefb9d9b6db9bbf6aedf9861564ca789a5d3c097da0d5c1b5af99a3f70ea4c6f

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.

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