finding-unknowns SKILL.md skillA
finding-unknowns from jpeetz/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/finding-unknowns@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jpeetz/agent-skills
- Path
skills/development/finding-unknowns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 31, 2026
- Size
- 4,879 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- none declared
Use when entering unfamiliar code or domain territory.
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
# Finding Unknowns — Meta-Cognitive Skill Suite A collection of 11 meta-cognitive skills that make coding agents surface unknown unknowns before they get expensive. These skills teach agents to discover what they don't know, audit their own context, design better interfaces, and structure implementation for maximum reviewability. Based on Thariq Shihipar's "finding your unknowns" techniques. Originally published by Neeeophytee at https://github.com/Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills. ## Skills in This Suite | Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | **blindspot-pass** | Surface unknown unknowns before work starts — landmines, hidden context, quality calibration | | **interview-me** | One-question-at-a-time targeted interview to resolve remaining ambiguity | | **reference-hunt** | Extract semantics from existing code as specification, then reimplement | | **implementation-plan** | Write plans ordered by likelihood of tweaking, not build order | | **implementation-notes** | Log deviations from plan and discovered edge cases during a build | | **pitch-packager** | Package work into a single review-ready document that gets fast approvals | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/finding-unknowns@sha256:dcf6d828e304c893The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_bgs7nkksedpqsnsr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-14 | 5722530 | 4,879 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-31 | 945bdcc | 4,878 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 (4879 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
jpeetz/agent-skills · 16 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bgs7nkksedpqsnsr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpeetz/agent-skills/finding-unknowns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dcf6d828e304c8933d2cd334ed7a83c1de5de9c6d2b67397905cd286b816141d
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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.