unknowns-discovery SKILL.md skillA
unknowns-discovery from secondsky/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add secondsky/claude-skills/unknowns-discovery@git:20260806.2b93f5aPins git:20260806.2b93f5a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- secondsky/claude-skills
- Path
plugins/unknowns-discovery/skills/unknowns-discovery/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260806.2b93f5a, committed Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 7,757 bytes
- Repository stars
- 247
- License
- MIT
Discover and reduce task unknowns — blindspots, missing context, and unknown unknowns — before committing to a plan, implementation, review, or merge.
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
# Unknowns Discovery Use this skill when an agent should **discover what the user, spec, prompt, or codebase is missing** before it commits to a plan, implementation, review, or merge. The prompt, skill, ticket, screenshot, and context window are the **map**. The real codebase, product, users, data, constraints, history, and reviewer expectations are the **territory**. The gap between them is the task's **unknowns**. ## Unknown types | Type | Meaning | Agent move | |---|---|---| | Known knowns | Explicit facts and constraints in the prompt | Preserve and restate briefly | | Known unknowns | Questions already recognized as open | Ask, research, parameterize, or gate | | Unknown knowns | Tacit standards the user would recognize only after seeing them | Prototype, mock, compare, or interview | | Unknown unknowns | Hidden constraints, missing vocabulary, prior art, traps, or quality ceilings nobody mentioned | Run blindspot passes, inspect references, search code/history, and surface landmines | ## When to activate Activate this skill when any of these are true: - The work is multi-step, ambiguous, unfamiliar, high-risk, or likely to require judgment. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add secondsky/claude-skills/unknowns-discovery@sha256:26a2109cc9bb2fb8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260806.2b93f5a, 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_bf6zgudlk2hufvsz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 6, 2026.
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 (7757 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
secondsky/claude-skills · 247 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bf6zgudlk2hufvsz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=secondsky/claude-skills/unknowns-discovery GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/26a2109cc9bb2fb86d9269c4f43f3249767b6b3914c60ea6adff15a05beb2e60
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.