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shirky-principle skillA

shirky-principle is agent-read markdown (skill) from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer: Apply the Shirky Principle when analyzing why legacy systems persist, why incumbents resist disruptive solutions, why organizations seem to make self-defeating decisions, or why a tool or institution appears to be prolonging the problem it was meant to solve. Trigger on phrases like "why do they keep the old system running?", "this tool is creating the problem it's supposed to fix", "why won't they just adopt the better solution?", "why does this bureaucracy exist?", or any situation where an in.

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How to install

Latest version
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/shirky-principle@git:20260530.3e17152
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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (4331 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

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g3cudrxgn5fsg23q
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/shirky-principle
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4c68334b8c3da85e203e107b0389243197aa838d17b7d67edf2761a47e15468f

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