ken-debt SKILL.md skillA

ken-debt from rajnandan1/ken is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add rajnandan1/ken/ken-debt@git:20260826.e88374f

Pins git:20260826.e88374f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
rajnandan1/ken
Path
.openclaw/skills/ken-debt/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260826.e88374f, committed Aug 26, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
1,453 bytes
Repository stars
14
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Harvest every ken: ceiling comment into one ledger, so brute-force deferrals get tracked instead of forgotten. One-shot report.

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

Every deliberate ken brute-force ceiling is marked with a `ken:` comment
naming its ceiling and upgrade trigger. This collects them into one ledger so
a deferral can't become permanent without notice.

## Scan

Grep the repo for comment markers, skipping `node_modules`, `.git`, and build
output:

`grep -rnE '(#|//) ?ken:' .` (add other comment prefixes if your stack uses them)

Each hit is one ledger row. The comment prefix keeps prose that mentions
the convention out of the ledger.

## Output

One row per marker, grouped by file:

`<file>:<line>, <the brute-force form used>. ceiling: <the limit named>. upgrade: <the trigger to revisit>.`

The convention is `ken: <ceiling>, <upgrade trigger>`, so pull the ceiling
and the trigger straight from the comment. Want an owner per row too? add
`git blame -L<line>,<line>`.

Flag the rot risk: any `ken:` comment that names no upgrade trigger gets a
`no-trigger` tag; those can rot without warning.

End with `<N> markers, <M> with no trigger.` Nothing found: `No ken: debt. Clean ledger.`

## Boundaries

Reads and reports only, changes nothing. To persist it, ask and it writes the
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add rajnandan1/ken/ken-debt@sha256:8b792b1e48e02006

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.e88374f, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_c33fgysxpn3gshjq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_c33fgysxpn3gshjq)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 26, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260826.e88374f latest2026-08-26 e88374f 1,453 BA view · diff
git:20260826.fb9074e2026-08-26 fb9074e 1,461 BA view

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 (1453 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

rajnandan1/ken · 14 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c33fgysxpn3gshjq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rajnandan1/ken/ken-debt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8b792b1e48e020069a7e9ee930c9ac6f3d15d99fa18779febecd6a1e266fad1f

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.

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