Establish and maintain personal project alignment in ALIGNS.md, including selected history review. Use when priorities are unclear, important decisions diverge, repeated corrections expose a missing criterion, or an autonomous loop or goal needs judgment calibration, including setup, stopping, and completion that conflict with user intent. Apply existing agreements and fix known execution errors without reopening routine decisions.
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
# Align
Help a user and their agent agree on what good work means and keep decisions
consistent with that agreement. The maintained skill supplies the method;
project-root `ALIGNS.md` holds the user's current criteria. Updating the skill
must never replace, reconfirm, or migrate those criteria automatically.
Use the user's language and project conventions. Do not import preferences
from the skill's source repository.
## Existing installations
The agreement filename is now `ALIGNS.md`. If a project still has `ALIGN.md`,
read it as the existing agreement. When migration is authorized, rename the file
and update its instruction references without changing its criteria or confirmation
date. If both files exist, compare them with the user before choosing or merging;
never silently overwrite either. `$align` remains the invocation.
## Read before asking
Identify the target project, applicable instructions, existing `ALIGNS.md`,
relevant conversation, and changes that could affect the current decision.
Check whether Git is available and this is a work tree. Use available history
and uncommitted work; a timestamp does not prove all later work was reviewed.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.5.2, 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.
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 (9552 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
hmmhmmhm/aligns.md · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fi6rudxcqpqrffxt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hmmhmmhm/aligns.md/align
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/873158eb56c1902fb357b1020d6ccafb34d1c3f7e7973e617498ec7c7bac15fc
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hmmhmmhm/aligns.md · benchmarks/effort/results/2026-10-15-astra-v1-failed/source-snapshot/skills/align/SKILL.md · Establish and maintain personal project alignment in ALIGN.md. Use when goals or priorities are unclear, important…
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