principle-flag-your-own-corrections SKILL.md skillA
principle-flag-your-own-corrections from edbertchan/catstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/principle-flag-your-own-corrections@git:20260925.a6edf2fPins git:20260925.a6edf2f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- edbertchan/catstack
- Path
corpus/skills/principle-flag-your-own-corrections/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260925.a6edf2f, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 4,915 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- none declared
Apply whenever you are about to admit fault in any wording — a fact, number, claim, or check you already stated turns out to be wrong, vacuous, premature, or unverified. Say so explicitly rather than quietly citing the corrected value, and treat the admission itself as a reflect trigger. Auto-fires because no regex can enumerate the ways a model admits error.
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
# Flag Your Own Corrections When something you already told the user turns out to be wrong, say so explicitly before moving on. Citing the corrected number without naming the earlier one as wrong looks like consistency, not correction — the user has no way to tell the difference from the outside. **Why:** The user builds on what you tell them — they may already be acting on, repeating, or deciding based on the earlier claim. A silent switch to the corrected value leaves them holding a number they don't know is stale, with no signal that anything changed. **Pattern:** - State the correction in the form "earlier I said X, that was wrong — it's actually Y," not just "Y is Z." - Do this even when the fix that caused the correction wasn't a careless mistake — a bug you found and fixed in your own tooling still means a number you already reported is now known to be wrong. - Do it in the next message where the number matters, not buried three turns later or only in a commit message. - Applies equally to numbers, claims of "done," and root-cause explanations — anything stated as fact that a later turn contradicts. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/principle-flag-your-own-corrections@sha256:dfa89b7bf8c7775bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.a6edf2f, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cgsjx3smd4ryfhz3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260925.a6edf2f latest | 2026-09-25 | a6edf2f | 4,915 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.e85e5c2 | 2026-09-10 | e85e5c2 | 4,164 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.847374d | 2026-08-25 | 847374d | 2,303 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 (4915 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
edbertchan/catstack · 6 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cgsjx3smd4ryfhz3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/principle-flag-your-own-corrections GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dfa89b7bf8c7775bc32d6f67de15d2a7c3e4749bcfc495c17d77618ebf7e3ca2
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