boundary-design SKILL.md skillA
boundary-design from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/boundary-design@git:20261021.4372ea9Pins git:20261021.4372ea9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents
- Path
skills/boundary-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261021.4372ea9, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 22, 2026
- Size
- 3,151 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Draw the line where it costs least. Use for build-vs-buy calls, "where does this module/team/service boundary belong?", APIs and abstractions forcing users into implementation vocabulary, tools that should augment rather than automate, hardcoded decisions that belong at runtime, or information nobody can find.
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
# Boundary Design **Problem shape:** something must be split, wrapped, or interfaced — a system into modules, a workflow between human and tool, a product between build and buy — and the current boundary leaks implementation detail, transaction cost, or cognitive load across it. ## Relevant geniuses | Agent | Use when | |---|---| | [coase](../../agents/genius/coase.md) | build vs buy; team/service boundary placement — compare transaction costs across the boundary, not ideology | | [hopper](../../agents/genius/hopper.md) | users forced to think in implementation vocabulary — build the translator; debugging under-invested; a tool defended out of familiarity | | [engelbart](../../agents/genius/engelbart.md) | "automate this" proposed where augmenting the person is the real win; the team doesn't use its own tool; design for expert ceiling, not just novice floor | | [kay](../../agents/genius/kay.md) | decisions hardcoded that could bind late; tight coupling via direct calls; users need to modify the system at runtime | | [alexander](../../agents/genius/alexander.md) | decompose by misfit; the design needs a generative sequence of patterns rather than a top-down blueprint | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/boundary-design@sha256:216b74e55db8f3b2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.4372ea9, 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_ci6khozquuyjjace)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 22, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261021.4372ea9 latest | 2026-10-21 | 4372ea9 | 3,151 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.e8cc65e | 2026-08-05 | e8cc65e | 3,090 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.b89f9c1 | 2026-07-22 | b89f9c1 | 3,064 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 (3151 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
cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ci6khozquuyjjace GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/boundary-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/216b74e55db8f3b2eaa8ce026887a175783866c62d816d0852fcdcf82002b71e
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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.