bastani-inc/atomic · packages/workflows/skills/why/SKILL.md

why skillA

why is agent-read markdown (skill) from bastani-inc/atomic: Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thresholds. Discovers available MCPs and queries each evidence category (source control, issue tracker, long-form docs, real-time chat, infrastructure observability, error tracking, product analytics warehouse) in parallel, then returns a cited read on decisions and tradeoffs. Use how for runtime behavior..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add bastani-inc/atomic/why@git:20260823.166e8d7
Exact content
mdr add bastani-inc/atomic/why@sha256:b9483931061c91ac

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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git:20260823.166e8d7 latest2026-08-23 166e8d7 22,885 BA view · diff
git:20260823.cc40f7f2026-08-23 cc40f7f 21,601 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (22885 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

bastani-inc/atomic · 805 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cfqkxgcbidsdmmjk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bastani-inc/atomic/why
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b9483931061c91ac6393d27962bbe71644e928ef017120b11fb9c6b6dfc9cc24

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