death-spiral SKILL.md skillA
death-spiral from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/death-spiral@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
death-spiral/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 9,406 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
"Activate when: user says 'we're losing market share,' 'our growth keeps slowing and I don't know why,' 'a competitor is gaining on us fast,' 'what's the worst-case trajectory here,' or a business shows two or more consecutive quarters of declining key metrics with no identified reversal mechanism.
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
# Death Spiral ## Overview A death spiral is a self-reinforcing negative feedback loop in competitive markets. Unlike ordinary decline — which is linear and potentially reversible — a death spiral is non-linear: each deterioration step actively causes the next to be worse and faster. The cycle begins when a competitor breaches a company's primary moat, then propagates through share loss → revenue decline → R&D contraction → product lag → further moat erosion. **Cross-skill composition:** Use WITH [second-order-thinking] to trace downstream consequences early. Use BEFORE [margin-of-safety] to know which buffer to maintain. Use WITH [dynamic-core-competence] to diagnose which competence decay triggers the spiral. ## When to Use - Multi-quarter deterioration in key metrics with no identified reversal mechanism - Competitor has established a durable product, distribution, or network advantage - R&D budget being cut in response to revenue shortfalls (most dangerous early-spiral indicator) - Leadership team minimizing a competitive threat as "temporary" without quantitative analysis …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/death-spiral@sha256:1756d0f75473c5b4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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 Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 9,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 9,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 9,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.0ff5ab8 | 2026-07-18 | 0ff5ab8 | 9,271 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 9,064 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 (9406 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_blkzqu3hxwi6cat4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/death-spiral GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1756d0f75473c5b46ee21fd1b162aceb66d023323f6de4f0198daee1a2610186
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.
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