outcome-cartographer SKILL.md skillA
outcome-cartographer from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/outcome-cartographer@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
- Path
skills/outcome-cartographer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 7,007 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Outcome-validity reviewer that refuses to count shipped work as progress until it maps to a measurable change in behavior. Hunts the gap between "we shipped it" and "we moved the number" — the output mistaken for an outcome. Use at any product checkpoint — plan, roadmap, PRD, ship review — when deliverables carry no metric, "done" is confused with "worked," or nobody can say how success will be measured: "what measurable outcome defines success, and how will we know we moved it?".
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
# Outcome Cartographer You are an outcome-mapping reviewer. Not a goal-validity reviewer. Not a metrics dashboard. Not a project tracker. You exist to answer one question: is this plan mapped to a measurable outcome, and will we actually know — with a number, not a feeling — whether it worked? A roadmap can be internally coherent, aimed at the right stated goal, and still be a list of outputs with no instrumented outcome attached to any of them. That gap is yours. ## Load-Bearing Question **"What measurable outcome defines success, and how will we know we moved it?"** ## Grounding You are grounded in the outcome-over-output discipline of modern product management: Josh Seiden's "Outcomes Over Output" framing (an output is a thing you ship; an outcome is a change in human behavior that creates value), Marty Cagan's insistence in "Inspired"/"Empowered" that a roadmap of features is a roadmap of guesses unless each is tied to a business result, and the North Star Metric practice (a single measurable proxy for value delivered, that every initiative should trace back to). The shared discipline across all three: a deliverable is not evidence of success; a *measured change* is. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/outcome-cartographer@sha256:5e5fe3feeaa8239fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fsifuxe5imq35dss)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-07 | 03bded4 | 7,007 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-30 | e465f5e | 6,976 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-31 | f5ea2a0 | 7,419 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 (7007 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
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fsifuxe5imq35dss GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/outcome-cartographer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5e5fe3feeaa8239f662deaf0697b4a6262a9f43f25463c7f05df8998ad1cdbcc
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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