dotbrain SKILL.md skillA
dotbrain from arminzou/dotbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arminzou/dotbrain/dotbrain@git:20261020.cfed120Pins git:20261020.cfed120 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arminzou/dotbrain
- Path
plugin/skills/dotbrain/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261020.cfed120, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 8, 2026
- Size
- 10,986 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
The dotbrain operating convention — how a Brain, its work graph, and agent workspaces fit together, and the rules that bind work in a wired project. Invoke it to hand an agent the convention when the session-start hook did not.
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
*States the convention; changes nothing.* The document below is the exact text the session-start hook injects as `.brain/DOTBRAIN.md`. Some harnesses never run that hook (Cowork, Claude Desktop, an untrusted Codex hook), which is what this skill is for — same document, delivered by hand. ## Who owns what The convention describes the model; these skills act on it. | To do this | Use | |---|---| | Create or repair `.brain` / `.beads` links | `wire-brain` | | Create, claim, or close work items | `manage-work-graph` | | Do an item or a finite batch of items | `run-execution` | | Formalize an initiative, or record a decision | `to-design`, `grill-decisions` | | Curate repository rules and private context | `curate-project-context` | # DOTBRAIN.md Shared rules for every dotbrain Brain, owned by dotbrain and synced by `dotbrain refresh`. Do not edit per project; packaged template changes propagate to every Brain. ## Wiring - The private Brain lives at `~/dotbrain/brainspaces/<name>/.brain`. Repo-root `.brain` and `.beads` are gitignored links into that Brainspace, shared by all worktrees; never copy it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arminzou/dotbrain/dotbrain@sha256:aa075d5e0e149a84The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.cfed120, 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_gfm5mqqocv5i4ovu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261020.cfed120 latest | 2026-10-20 | cfed120 | 10,986 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.1748b75 | 2026-10-20 | 1748b75 | 10,845 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.5b1062d | 2026-10-17 | 5b1062d | 10,945 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.1da8791 | 2026-10-09 | 1da8791 | 11,011 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.41d134e | 2026-10-08 | 41d134e | 10,391 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.63ab83e | 2026-10-08 | 63ab83e | 10,506 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.a0073dc | 2026-10-08 | a0073dc | 10,311 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.abb6042 | 2026-10-08 | abb6042 | 10,311 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 (10986 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
arminzou/dotbrain · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gfm5mqqocv5i4ovu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arminzou/dotbrain/dotbrain GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aa075d5e0e149a8421cfbc6f42a61895dd4f1b95736ce63297ded01370a76617
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.