solution-exploration SKILL.md skillA
solution-exploration from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/solution-exploration@git:20260828.f80dcb5Pins git:20260828.f80dcb5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/technology/skills/solution-exploration/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260828.f80dcb5, committed Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,915 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Explores the problem and the range of possible approaches before any code is written — clarifying what is actually being asked, surfacing options with their tradeoffs, and converging on one. Use this at the start of any feature, component, or behavior change, when a request is ambiguous, when the first idea is the only idea on the table, or when a design decision needs pressure-testing before commitment.
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
# Solution exploration The most expensive bugs are decisions, not defects. This runs before implementation, not instead of it. ## Establish what is actually wanted The stated request is a proposed solution wearing the clothes of a requirement. Get underneath it: - What outcome does the person want? What breaks today without it? - Who else touches this, and what do they assume about it now? - What is explicitly **not** being asked for? - How will we know it worked — the observable difference. If the answers conflict, stop and resolve that first. Building the average of two requirements satisfies neither. ## Generate genuinely different options Two variations of the same idea are one option. Force real range: - The smallest thing that could work. - The version that assumes this doubles in scope next quarter. - The version that requires no new moving parts. - Buy, borrow, or do nothing. For each: what it costs, what it forecloses, and what has to be true for it to be right. ## Converge Recommend one and say why the others lost. A comparison that ends without a recommendation has moved the work, not done it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/solution-exploration@sha256:4bfe075b303c52d7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.f80dcb5, 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_eiscdlaqqnfzkeqv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 28, 2026.
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 (1915 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
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eiscdlaqqnfzkeqv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/solution-exploration GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4bfe075b303c52d7957760888ccb6959deb07233ad396c786b67af960b619588
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.