exploration-strategy SKILL.md skillA
exploration-strategy from rlaope/ultraprompt is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rlaope/ultraprompt/exploration-strategy@git:20260915.a5ced99Pins git:20260915.a5ced99 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rlaope/ultraprompt
- Path
skills/exploration-strategy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260915.a5ced99, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 9,818 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Build an accurate mental model of an unfamiliar codebase or problem before making any edit — structural scan, entry-point location, one end-to-end trace, and an explicit known-vs-assumed ledger.
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
# Exploration Strategy > Status: v0.1 baseline draft — derived from the case catalog and axis definitions; awaiting trace evidence from Fable 5.1 case runs. ## When to apply - You are dropped into a repository you have never seen and asked to change or fix something in it. - A task description references symbols, modules, or behaviors you cannot yet locate in the code. - You are about to edit code whose callers, config sources, or side effects you have not confirmed. - A bug report describes a symptom but you do not yet know which layer produces it. - Your context was compacted or the session resumed, and your prior map of the codebase may be stale. - You catch yourself editing based on what a file "probably" contains rather than what you read. ## Core loop 1. **Restate the task as a location question.** Before any file read, write one sentence: "To do X, I need to find where Y happens and what touches it." This defines the exploration target; every subsequent read is judged against it. If you cannot phrase the target, the task itself is underspecified — resolve that first. 2. **Breadth-first structural scan (hard cap: ~10 tool calls).** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rlaope/ultraprompt/exploration-strategy@sha256:e81b8c17d089b857The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.a5ced99, 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_dovzli7fhbci6bbc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 72 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260915.a5ced99 latest | 2026-09-15 | a5ced99 | 9,818 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.c12b4fc | 2026-07-05 | c12b4fc | 9,816 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 (9818 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
rlaope/ultraprompt · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dovzli7fhbci6bbc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rlaope/ultraprompt/exploration-strategy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e81b8c17d089b857cce1bcf264bed7fe8825abfb7f1a06f67af78b45b5290510
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.