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Zero Drift from obrenoalvim/zero-drift is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add obrenoalvim/zero-drift/Zero Drift@v1.2.0

Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
obrenoalvim/zero-drift
Path
skills/zero-drift/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.2.0, committed Jun 22, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 22, 2026
Size
6,267 bytes
Repository stars
34
License
MIT

Two-rule grounding system — named responses and a living task document for seamless context handoff.

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

# Zero Drift

> No hallucination. No drift. No losing track.

Two rules. Active every response. No exceptions.

---

## Rule 1: Named Response

Every reply starts with the user's name.

**Purpose — hallucination detector.** The name is the canary. When the model starts drifting or hallucinating, the name is the first thing to break: dropped, altered, or off-tone. The user watches for this. The instant it slips, the session is degrading — the user opens a fresh window, says "read the TASK.md and continue", and resumes clean. So: never drop the name, never alter it. A consistent name = a grounded session.

### How to find the name

Run these in order, stop at the first hit:

1. `git config user.name` — use the result
2. Scan `CLAUDE.md` / `AGENTS.md` / `GEMINI.md` for a line like `MY_NAME=` or `name:` in a personal/user section
3. Check if the user introduced themselves earlier in this session
4. **If nothing found → ask once:**
   > "What's your name? I'll use it throughout our session."
   Store the answer for the rest of the session.

### Format

```
[Name]: [rest of response]
```

Example:
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add obrenoalvim/zero-drift/Zero Drift@sha256:c62e3e32673c9687

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ft2pqy7wof7flx5c.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ft2pqy7wof7flx5c)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, all committed on Jun 22, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.2.0 latest2026-06-22 03bb374 6,267 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-06-22 e3e58ce 4,628 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-06-22 cbe6370 4,421 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-22 ecada25 4,950 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-22 ca75642 4,520 BA 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 (6267 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

obrenoalvim/zero-drift · 34 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ft2pqy7wof7flx5c
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=obrenoalvim/zero-drift/Zero Drift
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c62e3e32673c96876652b026d38d5b70d3c037a326c443808d2a4646745ff98f

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