contention-layer SKILL.md skillA
contention-layer from chrono-meta/forge-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrono-meta/forge-harness/contention-layer@git:20260712.836c8dfPins git:20260712.836c8df in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrono-meta/forge-harness
- Path
plugins/fh-meta/skills/contention-layer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260712.836c8df, committed Jul 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 26, 2026
- Size
- 9,580 bytes
- Repository stars
- 30
- License
- MIT
When two skills, agents, or independent research tracks produce conflicting verdicts on the same output, reads the conflict as a signal rather than an error and harvests new skill candidates or insight deltas — including a Dual-Track Grounding conflict (open-frontier track vs internally-grounded recall track disagreeing). Routes skills born from contention to fh-meta (meta-layer), the commons plugin (project-agnostic), or field harvest (domain-specific). Triggered by "two skills conflict…
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
# contention-layer — Contention Harvest + New Skill Routing When two skills conflict, **harvest the signal** instead of discarding one. Find the validation angle that neither skill addressed, and onboard new skill candidates into the FH ecosystem according to their routing path. > Philosophical basis: Cognitive dissonance in humans is not a failure but a core asset — the ability to hold contradictions created culture. In the FH ecosystem, conflict is the signal from which new skills are born. ## Triggers ``` /contention-layer # analyze current conflict situation /contention-layer --skills A B # specify two skills for contention analysis ``` Phrase triggers: "two skills conflict" · "weird when used together" · "they produce different conclusions" · "contention harvest" · "contention" · "open vs grounded contradiction" · "research tracks disagree" · "dual-track grounding **+ conflict/disagree/contradict**" (the phrase "dual-track grounding" alone collides with `phantom-quench` on the word "grounding" — measured Step-0.5 probe #3, 2026-06-17; it fires this skill only when a conflict word co-occurs) ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrono-meta/forge-harness/contention-layer@sha256:0cb16c10d0eba293The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260712.836c8df, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 26, 2026 and Jul 12, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20260712.836c8df latest | 2026-07-12 | 836c8df | 9,580 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260618.ebd1c87 | 2026-06-18 | ebd1c87 | 9,744 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.caeb520 | 2026-06-17 | caeb520 | 9,157 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260531.2269faf | 2026-05-31 | 2269faf | 5,279 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260526.2de8630 | 2026-05-26 | 2de8630 | 4,979 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 (9580 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
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
chrono-meta/forge-harness · 30 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7vo7qhfassmwzhiq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrono-meta/forge-harness/contention-layer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0cb16c10d0eba293fb803712d9c72f7dab6c7f675d7d6ce764da9c26e9e99ac2
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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.