principle-name-the-scorer SKILL.md skillA

principle-name-the-scorer from edbertchan/catstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/principle-name-the-scorer@git:20260910.26ee82b

Pins git:20260910.26ee82b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
edbertchan/catstack
Path
corpus/skills/principle-name-the-scorer/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260910.26ee82b, committed Sep 10, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 25, 2026
Size
2,212 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
none declared

Apply when a product has two (or more) scorers that both emit weights, priorities, or rankings — especially hand-authored theme/report priorities beside learned historical-case tag weights. Name which scorer produced which number; never imply one sets the other unless wiring is explicit.

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

# Name the Scorer

When a product keeps **two intentional scorers** — (A) hand-authored
theme/report priorities and (B) learned historical-case tag weights — treat
them as separate provenance. Coexistence is not a feed.

**Must always:**

- Answer "where did this weight come from?" by naming the scorer (file,
  config key, or module), not by blending both into one vague "the model."
- When docs say the systems are intentionally separate, cite that separation
  instead of inventing a causal link.
- If the user asks whether B sets A (or A sets B), say no unless the code
  path that wires them is shown in the same answer.

**Must never:**

- Imply that learned case-frequency / tag weights set hand-authored finding
  or theme priorities (or the reverse) just because both are numbers in
  `[0, 1]` and both affect ranking-ish UX.
- Collapse two scorers into one sentence that makes a reader think one
  number updates the other when it does not.

**Shape to watch:**

| Lane | Typical artifact | What it scores |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A — hand-authored | `finding_priorities`, theme/report priority YAML | What this product *wants* to emphasize |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/principle-name-the-scorer@sha256:9b21702fa6fc4b72

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260910.26ee82b, 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_ewzri6krporfvjnz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ewzri6krporfvjnz)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026, about one every 15 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260910.26ee82b latest2026-09-10 26ee82b 2,212 BA view · diff
git:20260825.b5fc4db2026-08-25 b5fc4db 2,218 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2212 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

GitHub

edbertchan/catstack · 6 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ewzri6krporfvjnz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/principle-name-the-scorer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9b21702fa6fc4b7203db4c6fd5463aa7bd7a9d78ba14bacfd83577e2ff92dc6f

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.

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