planning-humanities-argument SKILL.md skillA

planning-humanities-argument from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/planning-humanities-argument@v2.1.0

Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers
Path
skills/planning-humanities-argument/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v2.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 19, 2026
Size
10,833 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Use when a research question, scope boundary, and source base exist but the manuscript still needs a defensible sequence of claims, warrants, evidence, objections, and section functions.

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

# Planning a Humanities Argument

## Purpose

Convert a research question and bounded source base into an explicit argument architecture. The skill makes inferential dependencies visible before prose hides them. It does not manufacture a thesis, create evidence, or convert thematic organization into argument by tone alone.

## Contract

**Accepts**
- A `ResearchQuestion`, `ScopeBoundary`, provisional thesis, source inventory, and notes.
- Optional venue constraints, word limit, disciplinary expectations, and section drafts.

**Requires**
- A research question that can be answered propositionally.
- A provisional thesis supplied or approved by the researcher.
- At least one identifiable evidence class for every major claim.
- A declared scope boundary.

**Produces**
- One argument map composed of `Claim`, `EvidenceItem`, `Inference`, `ArgumentNode`, and `Objection` records.
- A dependency-ordered section plan.
- An evidence-gap register.
- An argument-planning gate report.

**May produce**
- Alternative architectures when more than one defensible sequence exists.
- `CONDITIONAL PASS` when the structure is usable but evidence or warrants remain incomplete.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/planning-humanities-argument@sha256:c00adbcd2ff0e42e

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, 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.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10833 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
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  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fikowjba722zkaku
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/planning-humanities-argument
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c00adbcd2ff0e42e2becba0e051e0028bf9172dadee99d0bd8cf0e09340bc5ce

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