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drive-motivation from wondelai/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add wondelai/skills/drive-motivation@v1.4.0

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Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wondelai/skills
Path
drive-motivation/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.4.0, committed Jun 30, 2026
First version recorded
Feb 22, 2026
Size
12,441 bytes
Repository stars
2,640
License
MIT

Design motivation systems using Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose (AMP) for products and teams. Use when the user mentions "intrinsic motivation", "gamification isnt working", "rewards arent working", "autonomy", "mastery", "purpose-driven", "my team is disengaged", or "how do I motivate people". Also trigger when designing onboarding progression, fixing broken gamification, or building team structures that sustain high performance. Covers why carrot-and-stick fails and how to build progress…

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

# Drive Motivation Framework

Design motivation systems for products, teams, and organizations using the science of intrinsic motivation.

## Core Principle

**The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishment — it's the deeply human need to direct our own lives, learn and create new things, and do better for ourselves and our world.** For any task requiring even rudimentary cognitive effort, external rewards either don't work or actively worsen performance. Intrinsic motivation — Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose (AMP) — drives lasting engagement.

## Scoring

**Goal: 10/10.** Score any motivation system (product features, team incentives, gamification, engagement loops) against the [Quick Diagnostic](#quick-diagnostic): start at 5, add 1 for each of the first five rows answered "yes," then **subtract 2 if the sixth row is also "yes"** — an "if-then" reward doing the motivating crowds out the rest. Bands:

- **9-10** — autonomy, mastery, and purpose all present; no if-then crowding-out.
- **5-6** — one pillar carries the system; the other two are weak or extrinsic.
- **≤3** — relies on rewards, mandates, or controlling behaviors; intrinsic motivation absent.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wondelai/skills/drive-motivation@sha256:f4683c7ab6846f16

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 22, 2026 and Jun 30, 2026, about one every 32 days.

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v1.1.02026-04-05 4d32253 16,143 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-02-22 ba37181 15,957 BA view

Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12441 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

wondelai/skills · 2,640 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cjwqyhw2xyohbweh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wondelai/skills/drive-motivation
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f4683c7ab6846f168272a6905cea24ebfa56218c07f1168230f0991ae3eb6c5b

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