gridmaker-interview SKILL.md skillA
gridmaker-interview from chrisgagne/grounded-forge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrisgagne/grounded-forge/gridmaker-interview@git:20260712.833d840Pins git:20260712.833d840 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrisgagne/grounded-forge
- Path
.claude/skills/gridmaker-interview/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260712.833d840, committed Jul 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 19, 2026
- Size
- 28,879 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Run a 10–15 minute structured interview with the operator that surfaces register, current circumstance, working style, relational stance, and values, then write a self-lens spec at `{corpus}/lenses/{operator-slug}-self.md`. The lens is a named-real-person lens (per `creating-lenses`) where the named person is the operator. Delta-mode by default: skips territory already covered by global or project CLAUDE.md. Voice-mode auto-detected when the `voicemode` skill is available. The lens spec is…
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
# Gridmaker Interview
Single-process dialogue skill. One operator per session, no subagents. Produces one self-lens spec.
A self-lens is a named-real-person lens (see [`creating-lenses`](../creating-lenses/SKILL.md) Phase 1, branch (a)) where the named person is the operator running the skill. The same six-section lens spec, the same grounding-contract discipline, the same ventriloquism guard — with the as-if clause sharpened: *reads as if {operator}-at-time-T were reading, given the material this interview surfaces; it is not {operator}-now, and {operator}-now is the seer choosing to look through it*.
The fifteen-question protocol draws on several research traditions, each shaping one aspect of the interview:
- **Christensen, Hall, Dillon & Duncan (*Competing Against Luck*, HarperBusiness, 2016)** — the jobs-to-be-done framework, which asks *what is the operator hiring this tool to do for them?* Shapes the opening question about the trigger moment.
- **Rogers (*Client-Centered Therapy*, Houghton Mifflin, 1951)** — non-directive warmth: reflect what you heard before pushing for more. Shapes the overall register.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrisgagne/grounded-forge/gridmaker-interview@sha256:a1dc1cac4823402bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260712.833d840, 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 2 versions of this file, between May 19, 2026 and Jul 12, 2026, about one every 54 days.
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| git:20260712.833d840 latest | 2026-07-12 | 833d840 | 28,879 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260519.67f704c | 2026-05-19 | 67f704c | 28,906 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 (28879 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
chrisgagne/grounded-forge · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cfhp3byem5777min GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrisgagne/grounded-forge/gridmaker-interview GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a1dc1cac4823402b672638253ac7c2b76bde0ea24463a629069eba377884b667
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.