synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · skills/synthesis-anti-shortcuts/SKILL.md

synthesis-anti-shortcuts skillA

synthesis-anti-shortcuts is agent-read markdown (skill) from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills: Discipline for catching the lazy-shortcut antipattern in AI-assistant output. Makes the costume vocabulary explicit so agents recognize when their drafts have slid into deferral, dismissal, or false consultation. Includes the constraint-first protocol, sub-agent dispatch and acceptance hygiene, and a pre-response self-check. Use when asked to: avoid shortcuts, audit for laziness, check for deferral, enforce best solution, no shortcuts, anti-shortcut, constraint-first, sub-agent hygiene, costume .

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-anti-shortcuts@v1.1.1
Exact content
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-anti-shortcuts@sha256:3a8ae95bfb1115ac

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.1.1 latest2026-08-20 e2fb922 16,774 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-08-18 9233e81 14,740 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-08-18 65b4b81 14,235 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-07-29 9b134e7 13,450 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (16774 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

synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 19 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bcxwrobcmxgwj5bt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-anti-shortcuts
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3a8ae95bfb1115acf30ef691137d04ec7d4f09007dddcda027817f17f6af2933

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