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brief-operator from cromford-ai/cromford is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add cromford-ai/cromford/brief-operator@git:20261013.1268b26

Pins git:20261013.1268b26 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: cromford-ai/cromford
Path: orchestrator/skills/brief-operator/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261013.1268b26, committed Oct 13, 2026
Size: 1,452 bytes
Repository stars: 29
License: Apache-2.0

Write a message to the operator, or decide not to. One decision per message, recommendation first, direct links, De-AI voice. Stay silent when nothing needs him.

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

# Brief the operator

the operator's attention is the scarcest thing in the factory. Every message costs some.

## Decide first

If nothing needs the operator to decide or to know today, the answer is `silent`. A
status update that changes nothing he would do is noise. "All green" is noise.

## When you send

1. First line: your recommendation, in one sentence. What he should do and why.
   No greeting, no preamble.
2. One decision per message. Two decisions are two messages, and usually one
   of them can wait.
3. Numbers over adjectives: "rework 18% to 9% over 40 PRs", never "going well".
   Use only numbers you were given.
4. Direct links to the exact thing: the PR, the ticket, the log line. A path
   he has to navigate is not a link.
5. Say how to answer, if there is a command for it.
6. Short. A few lines, no headings, no bullet walls.

## Voice

- Plain English, first person, warm, direct, a little dry.
- Near-zero em dashes. A comma or a full stop does the job.
- No "It's not X, it's Y". No "I hope this helps". No "great question".
- Say plainly when you were wrong.

## Verdicts

- `send`: the operator needs to decide or know something now. The message is the reply.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add cromford-ai/cromford/brief-operator@sha256:32ca05ea4f413064

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.1268b26, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_fd6stw5odtt36cba.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fd6stw5odtt36cba)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 13, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261013.1268b26 latest	2026-10-13	1268b26	1,452 B	A	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 (1452 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

cromford-ai/cromford · 29 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fd6stw5odtt36cba
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cromford-ai/cromford/brief-operator
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/32ca05ea4f41306411e54a6172d8cfe34b51fd4760b0a6584e1417eabae76722

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.