discern SKILL.md skillA
discern from donald-ada/workinggenius is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/discern@git:20260925.6f9d20bPins git:20260925.6f9d20b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- donald-ada/workinggenius
- Path
skills/discern/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20260925.6f9d20b, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 23, 2026
- Size
- 5,739 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Explore the paths first where none are on record (the `invent` skill), then attack every path adversarially with one blind attacker per path, commit to one, and present the commitment — consequences for the user to confirm, kills on the record. Use when the user asks to run discernment on a tracked piece of work (`/discern`, or in words), or asks for a ready-made plan to be attacked before it is built. A work whose `next:` names this stage is not that ask, because the flow never advances…
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
# Discernment The genius of judgment. Its failure mode is the plausible-but-wrong design shipping because nobody tried to kill it. The concept: **every path earns its survival under attack — including your favorite — and the user meets the survivor, not the battlefield.** Find the attack that kills each alternative from wherever it actually lives — the path's own shape knows its weakest joint better than any checklist. Where the plan under attack already has a contract (a work that ran Galvanizing), open `CONTRACT.md` first: the seams and pinned values are what an attack has to land against. Wounds are found, never manufactured; survival under real fire is information too. The decisions this project already recorded are live ammunition — `.genius/DECIDED.md` first, finished work files, and records that predate this plugin (`docs/adr/`): a path that contradicts one either dies of it, or survives by naming the decision it overturns and why. Ammunition goes stale: a recorded constraint the code stopped having kills nothing, so check each round before firing it, and correct a drifted one where it was written (`errata` skill) instead of shooting with it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/discern@sha256:9312c949fa1fca38The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.6f9d20b, 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_f3w35td5tccx4y2w)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Aug 23, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260925.6f9d20b latest | 2026-09-25 | 6f9d20b | 5,739 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.a140302 | 2026-09-25 | a140302 | 4,899 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.8d07e01 | 2026-09-25 | 8d07e01 | 4,539 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.efaff19 | 2026-09-06 | efaff19 | 4,146 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.c24fbe5 | 2026-09-06 | c24fbe5 | 5,385 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.3b8b19d | 2026-09-02 | 3b8b19d | 5,274 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.99299b0 | 2026-08-29 | 99299b0 | 4,165 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.94b064e | 2026-08-23 | 94b064e | 3,785 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 (5739 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
donald-ada/workinggenius · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_f3w35td5tccx4y2w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=donald-ada/workinggenius/discern GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9312c949fa1fca38303ad0c7919cfa4f9bb397e6c5e72f4d1dc96973d8a74fc4
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.