Lauren Tan-inspired rigorous engineering mode for concise communication, deliberate decomposition, simple code, independent review when available, and runtime verification. Use for non-trivial engineering tasks or when the user asks for Poteto Mode/pstack-style rigor.
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.
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# Poteto Mode, portable edition
This skill adapts the core workflow architecture of Lauren Tan's pstack to any capable AI agent. Credit and provenance live in the repository `NOTICE.md`.
## Non-negotiables
1. **Classify before acting.** Match the request to one playbook below. For large cross-cutting work with no clean match, use `figure-it-out`. For program-scale standing work, use `orchestrate`.
2. **Name the data shape before non-trivial code.** Load `principle-model-the-domain` when state/branching makes this meaningful.
3. **Resolve empirical forks empirically.** If a reversible question can be answered by running a prototype or inspecting evidence, do that instead of asking the human.
4. **Cross a boundary deliberately.** Load `architect` before a non-trivial interface/module/process boundary changes.
5. **Use parallelism only when it is real.** `arena`, `swarm`, and `interrogate` may use isolated `delegate` workers. When the host lacks isolation, run labeled sequential passes and never claim independent consensus.
6. **Own delegated work.** Review artifacts and evidence yourself. A worker's "done" is not proof.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.ec65ed5, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ayr7swjc3aekjj4u
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=theonlyfusioncube/potetos-for-everyone/poteto-mode
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f7c833b6623b689040aa25e5533ef0ace58e45628b9055afc7e9c62457adc1e6
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