why SKILL.md skillB

why from arcticfox2029/chamnan is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arcticfox2029/chamnan/why@git:20260922.16d437a

Pins git:20260922.16d437a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
arcticfox2029/chamnan
Path
skills/why/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260922.16d437a, committed Sep 22, 2026
Size
2,960 bytes
Repository stars
10
License
MIT

Work out whether a failure is your machine or your code before debugging either, using the environment this repository has declared and the dependency map. Use when a test, build or command fails and the cause is not obvious from the 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

# Your machine, or your code — decide that first

The expensive mistake is not picking the wrong fix. It is spending two hours in the code when the
problem was a version, or two hours on the environment when the problem was a line somebody changed.
One decision comes before any debugging, and this repository holds evidence for both sides of it.

## 1 · The machine

```
chamnan-env
```

What this repository has declared about the environments it runs in — the constraints nobody writes
down and everybody re-learns. A shell alias that hangs without a terminal, a binary that is not on
this platform, a Python whose certificate bundle is broken. **If the failure matches one of these,
stop: there is nothing wrong with the code.**

An error that mentions a command not found, a version mismatch, a certificate, a path separator or a
permission is a machine failure until something rules that out.

## 2 · The code

```
chamnan-impact <the file the failure points at>
```

Who imports it, **which tests cover it**, and what this repository has recorded about it. If the
failing test is in that list, the change and the failure are connected. If it is not, the error's
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arcticfox2029/chamnan/why@sha256:d1d10576a0c069fb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260922.16d437a, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_dnwfsua5v5rsdnzt.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dnwfsua5v5rsdnzt)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 22, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260922.16d437a latest2026-09-22 16d437a 2,960 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2960 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

arcticfox2029/chamnan · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dnwfsua5v5rsdnzt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arcticfox2029/chamnan/why
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d1d10576a0c069fb6f6333374f8d81a2bd8ed146db0594a661e019d57284d4c1

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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.

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