Sharpen a task before starting: the expert approach, what the user is really after, and the right level of specification. Use for /sharpen.
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
Before starting, ask how a top expert would approach this task (their raw sources, their real methods, an outside check that the result is right), what the user is really after, and whether the task is over- or underspecified. Loosen constraints that don't serve the goal as readily as you add ones that do, and leave choices that are the user's to make open instead of deciding them. Fold in only what makes the work better, not bigger, but always keep one outside check that the result is right, without narrating the framing, then do the work.
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.6ddf66a, 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.
A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
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pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
GitHub
backnotprop/pstack · 2,481 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dhcuoccag3y7yqeo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=backnotprop/pstack/sharpen
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d895695fcc29b832bf118b842c1d7cf356a69622d63c9d49b40a0c97d8496c80
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