idea-lineage SKILL.md skillA
idea-lineage from agentbull/ankole is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agentbull/ankole/idea-lineage@git:20261102.be5c19ePins git:20261102.be5c19e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agentbull/ankole
- Path
app/library/agent-plugins/brain/skills/idea-lineage/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261102.be5c19e, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,629 bytes
- Repository stars
- 175
- License
- Apache-2.0
Trace how one idea evolved through memory — first mention, best articulation, reversals, contradictions, abandoned branches, and the current live version, each cited from stored evidence. For a single idea, not a broad concept map or an entity metric history.
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
# Idea lineage Answer "how did my thinking about X change?" from stored evidence: when the idea first appeared, when it became sharp, what it displaced, what it contradicts, and which version is alive now. ## Boundaries - One idea per run. When one phrase covers several distinct ideas, ask which one before you synthesize. - A metric, role, or status history of an entity is not lineage. Use `delta` with the entity and a time window, and say the difference. - A broad map across many ideas is not lineage. Use `synthesize` with that question directly; page-level merge and consolidation belong to background memory maintenance, not to you. - Read-only by default. Write nothing unless the person asks for a saved artifact after seeing the answer; then `synthesize` owns the durable page. ## Method 1. **Resolve the target.** Restate the idea in one sentence. `recall` the exact phrase and its variants; check `entity` when the idea has a named page. Takes come back with holders — a take belongs to its holder and is not automatically the owner's current view. 2. **Gather evidence.** Read the top pages behind the strongest hits with …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agentbull/ankole/idea-lineage@sha256:dccaf35c21eab9daThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.be5c19e, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7vcg6xhsk4mas6yo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261102.be5c19e latest | 2026-11-02 | be5c19e | 3,629 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260830.6be8907 | 2026-08-30 | 6be8907 | 3,562 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.9111a33 | 2026-08-28 | 9111a33 | 3,749 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3629 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
agentbull/ankole · 175 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7vcg6xhsk4mas6yo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentbull/ankole/idea-lineage GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dccaf35c21eab9da722b8634777e3ebd2d352c5d3d980b7a03c8699cc217b12a
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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