wayfinder SKILL.md skillA

wayfinder from aethrox/doctrine is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add aethrox/doctrine/wayfinder@git:20260809.2a45dbb

Pins git:20260809.2a45dbb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: aethrox/doctrine
Path: skills/wayfinder/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260809.2a45dbb, committed Aug 9, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 9, 2026
Size: 5,152 bytes
Repository stars: 19
License: MIT

Plan a piece of work too large or too foggy for one sitting as a staged sequence of written decisions, resolved one at a time until the path to done is clear. Use when a loose idea needs to become a plan before implementation starts, when several open questions block each other, or when work is too big to spec in a single pass.

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

# Wayfinder

Some work isn't unclear because nobody's thought about it; it's unclear because it depends on decisions that haven't been made yet, and those decisions depend on others. This skill's defining constraint, from the RFC process IETF and Rust use for exactly this problem, is to chart large, uncertain work as a **sequence of individually-written decisions**, each one settled and recorded before the next is opened, rather than one big document trying to resolve everything at once.

Once the path is clear (no open decisions block the destination anymore), hand off to `spec-to-tickets` for execution. Wayfinder's job ends where a spec's job begins.

## Phase 1: Name the destination

Before charting anything, state what reaching the end of this effort looks like: a spec ready to hand off, a design decision locked in, or a migration completed. One or two lines, fixed before anything else, because it's what decides which open questions are actually in scope and which aren't. A destination that shifts mid-effort invalidates decisions already made against the old one; if it must shift, say so explicitly and re-check standing decisions against the new destination rather than…
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add aethrox/doctrine/wayfinder@sha256:e67e25456aa37393

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.2a45dbb, 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_fslsiyp2qfmypgsx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fslsiyp2qfmypgsx)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 9, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260809.2a45dbb latest	2026-08-09	2a45dbb	5,152 B	A	view · diff
git:20260809.5c2aad2	2026-08-09	5c2aad2	5,038 B	A	view · diff
git:20260809.21f29b0	2026-08-09	21f29b0	5,105 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 (5152 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

aethrox/doctrine · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fslsiyp2qfmypgsx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aethrox/doctrine/wayfinder
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e67e25456aa373933ebdbefa9d5ff1c4471d316cffbb09e93c332ceb7d318f8c

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.

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