philosophy SKILL.md skillA
philosophy from ahundt/autorun is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahundt/autorun/philosophy@git:20260816.da968edPins git:20260816.da968ed in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahundt/autorun
- Path
plugins/autorun/skills/philosophy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260816.da968ed, committed Aug 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 7,233 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Use when the user asks for the "system design philosophy", "design principles", "/ar:philosophy", or "/ar:ph", and before major feature work, an architecture decision, or a pull-request review. Lists the 17 universal system design principles, ordered from most fundamental to most specific, with concrete examples where a principle is easy to misread.
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
# Universal System Design Philosophy <purpose> Systems should follow these core principles to create an exceptional user experience. These are ordered from most fundamental to most specific: </purpose> <principles> ## CORE PRINCIPLES 1. **Automatic and Correct**: Make things "just work" without user intervention. We handle complexity so users don't have to. The system should feel magical. Once started, systems run to completion without asking questions. 2. **Modernize Systems Automatically**: Transform legacy configurations into modern, reproducible environments. We find the newest compatible versions that work together, not the oldest. We're upgrading, not downgrading — within the constraints the user has stated (principle 12 wins when they conflict). 3. **Easy to Use Correctly, Hard to Use Incorrectly**: Design systems and APIs that guide users toward success. Minimal parameters, smart defaults. Example: Just run `systemname` - no flags needed for 95% of cases. 4. **Solve Problems FOR Users**: Don't just report problems - fix them automatically. When we detect a conflict, we don't just tell users about the conflict, we …
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How to install
mdr add ahundt/autorun/philosophy@sha256:62138c1fe54cb96fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260816.da968ed, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Aug 16, 2026, about one every 3 days.
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| git:20260816.da968ed latest | 2026-08-16 | da968ed | 7,233 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.b22df34 | 2026-08-16 | b22df34 | 7,219 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.2807be5 | 2026-08-15 | 2807be5 | 7,139 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.31043db | 2026-08-05 | 31043db | 7,087 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.96f9c4a | 2026-08-05 | 96f9c4a | 6,809 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
ahundt/autorun · 13 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g5txp3onxikmfasg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahundt/autorun/philosophy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/62138c1fe54cb96f16da426dcd14f887ec4e7c8fe45752f8e96f9921cd432c79
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