recording-decisions SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
recording-decisions from mnema-work/mnema is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mnema-work/mnema/recording-decisions@git:20261103.120f6fcPins git:20261103.120f6fc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mnema-work/mnema
- Path
plugin/skills/recording-decisions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261103.120f6fc, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 7, 2026
- Size
- 4,683 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a choice between approaches, libraries or trade-offs has just been settled in this project, when an option was turned down, or when the person has just told you how something is to be done here.
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
# Recording decisions
A choice settled in this session and not recorded is gone when the session ends: the next
session works it out again, or undoes it. mnema is this project's signed, append-only record of
those choices, kept with the repository, and the server this plugin connects is the way to write
to it.
<SUBAGENT-STOP>
If you were dispatched by another agent to do a task, you do not record. Put each decision you
made in your final reply: what was settled, why, and what was turned down. End the reply with one
fenced block whose info string is `mnema-handback`, holding
`{"decisions":[{"settled":"…","why":"…","turnedDown":"…"}]}`, the list empty if you settled nothing
(`mnema handback --schema` prints the schema). A hook of this plugin sends a reply without it back
once. Whoever dispatched you records it. Then skip the rest of this skill.
</SUBAGENT-STOP>
## When it applies
- A choice was settled that someone could later question: a library, an approach, a trade-off.
- An option was turned down, and the reason is not in the code.
- The person told you how something is to be done here, or corrected how you did it.
## What to do
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mnema-work/mnema/recording-decisions@sha256:8adf6854d41dbf22The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.120f6fc, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 7, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261103.120f6fc latest | 2026-11-03 | 120f6fc | 4,683 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.2f9afed | 2026-10-28 | 2f9afed | 4,455 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.74b9237 | 2026-10-21 | 74b9237 | 4,350 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.feb6d00 | 2026-10-09 | feb6d00 | 4,176 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.384b4fd | 2026-10-07 | 384b4fd | 3,882 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 (4683 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
mnema-work/mnema · 4 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eavjhgqt5q6zbyd2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mnema-work/mnema/recording-decisions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8adf6854d41dbf223792fe94721f0c0d6fd91f1080fd97522c538d4de5f02ddf
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