exploring-an-idea SKILL.md skillA
exploring-an-idea from patrickserrano/lacquer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add patrickserrano/lacquer/exploring-an-idea@git:20261009.58faf9cPins git:20261009.58faf9c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- patrickserrano/lacquer
- Path
core/skills/exploring-an-idea/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261009.58faf9c, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 4, 2026
- Size
- 8,486 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Use at the very start of a new product idea — before a PRD, PCD, repo, or name exists, and any time someone says "I have an idea for", "should we build", "let's scope out", or asks for a PRD/PCD from scratch. Separates what is known from what is assumed, and forces the load-bearing assumptions to be measured before they become architecture. Works in Claude Desktop (research only) and Claude Code (research plus probes).
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
# Exploring an Idea A design document reads as settled fact whether or not anyone checked. That is the whole failure mode: an unverified sentence in a PCD becomes an interface, then a dependency, then a week of work, and nothing in the process ever asks "how do we know that?" This skill exists to put that question before the document instead of after it. ## The case this was written from Juliet (NFC tap-to-stream for record collectors) had an unusually good PRD and PCD — real non-goals, numeric kill criteria, a named Phase 0 with exit criteria. It still shipped four false premises into its architecture, and the Phase 0 spike had to correct all four: | The PCD asserted | Measurement found | |---|---| | "Spotify is effectively closed to us" (5-user dev cap, 250k-MAU quota wall) | Those gate **user-data** endpoints. Client credentials reach `/v1/search` and `/v1/albums` today. Spotify became the **best-covered** platform. | | Barcode/UPC is the strongest identifier — "UPC preferred" | Discogs carries the **physical pressing's** barcode; streaming keys the **digital release** UPC. Different numbers. Spotify UPC lookups hit **0/46**, Apple **5/42**. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add patrickserrano/lacquer/exploring-an-idea@sha256:d7d7c39e450122ecThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.58faf9c, 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_fyhmptcbgzmxbvzu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 4, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261009.58faf9c latest | 2026-10-09 | 58faf9c | 8,486 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.5f4ec88 | 2026-08-04 | 5f4ec88 | 8,538 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.88fef28 | 2026-08-04 | 88fef28 | 7,230 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 (8486 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
patrickserrano/lacquer · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fyhmptcbgzmxbvzu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=patrickserrano/lacquer/exploring-an-idea GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d7d7c39e450122eca7ccd3fa976d38a2bb7971e75a47d90ae98d33fa3a73cf41
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