specification SKILL.md skillA

specification from chipweaver/veripower is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add chipweaver/veripower/specification@git:20260919.cdf15ac

Pins git:20260919.cdf15ac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
chipweaver/veripower
Path
skills/specification/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
15
Latest version
git:20260919.cdf15ac, committed Sep 19, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 18, 2026
Size
4,207 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
MIT

Establish requirements, design decisions, interfaces, clocks and constraints from the delivered intent, or revise them after evidence-based clarification; not for implementing RTL or verification.

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

# Specification

Establish the task's requirements and implementation boundary from the original intent. Read
`{workdir}/dispatch.json`; `intent` names the delivered material and its referenced authorities.
Read the evidence needed to resolve a question. Write this stage's artifacts under `{workdir}`.
Author directly or delegate focused work, retaining responsibility for the resulting decisions.

## Establish or revise the definition

Continue from existing artifacts. Use changed inputs, failure records and actual user decisions
to scope work; absence of `caused_by` does not imply a first delivery. Preserve unaffected content
and stable requirement IDs. Read an upstream request's evidence before accepting its attribution.

Produce the requirements ledger using [ledger-task-contract.md](references/ledger-task-contract.md)
and the boundary using [decompose-task-contract.md](references/decompose-task-contract.md).
`design.md` records design choices and joint obligations; the RTL author decides the module split.
The boundary sidecars are `manifest.json`, `clocks.json` and `top-io.json`; their formats are in the
corresponding reference schemas.

Check the ledger:

```bash
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add chipweaver/veripower/specification@sha256:e61b1ee075f6f0e7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.cdf15ac, 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 15 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (4207 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

chipweaver/veripower · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bw7g53h4s5vvbiee
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chipweaver/veripower/specification
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e61b1ee075f6f0e7188452d4f47df18e7a169ee0b50ac6b24b8a227189fc07ac

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