scoping-argument-boundary SKILL.md skillA
scoping-argument-boundary from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/scoping-argument-boundary@v2.1.0Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers
- Path
skills/scoping-argument-boundary/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 10,087 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Use when a research question is promising but its corpus, period, comparison, concepts, or claim size remain too broad or unstable for a defensible humanities argument.
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
# Scoping an Argument Boundary ## Purpose Convert a promising research question into a bounded inquiry by defining what the argument includes, excludes, compares, and refuses to claim. The skill prevents scale inflation and protects the manuscript from drifting between incompatible objects or levels of analysis. ## Contract **Accepts** - A `ResearchQuestion` record or clearly stated primary question. - Candidate corpus, archive, period, geography, language, medium, or conceptual field. - Known venue, deadline, length, and access constraints. **Requires** - A stable primary question. - At least one candidate unit of analysis. - Enough project context to identify feasible exclusions. **Produces** - One `ScopeBoundary` record. - Inclusion and exclusion criteria. - A bounded corpus statement. - A claim ceiling defining the strongest claim the evidence could support. - A scope gate report. **May produce** - Alternative narrow, moderate, and expansive scope options. - A deferred-research list for valuable material excluded from the present project. **Fails when** - The primary question is still circular or indeterminate. - The researcher refuses necessary exclusions. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/scoping-argument-boundary@sha256:15406e5e0ef311b5The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 29 days.
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| v2.1.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | 1bc2e1c | 10,087 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-08-21 | 5d72da4 | 10,087 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-19 | 262e1c6 | 8,620 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 (10087 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
icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_drkeufbf6suqq7o2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/scoping-argument-boundary GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15406e5e0ef311b57943812458dde3cc27d19167cda6a8108f749ee94f12d16d
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