bounded-auto-loop SKILL.md skillA
bounded-auto-loop from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/bounded-auto-loop@git:20260728.3acf544Pins git:20260728.3acf544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
- Path
skills/bounded-auto-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.3acf544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,237 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Run a short, bounded autonomous loop of debugging or experiments before checking back in. Use when the user wants the agent to iterate for a few cycles, keep going autonomously, or stop only after a fixed budget or explicit stop rule is met.
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
# Bounded Auto Loop Use this skill when the user wants a few autonomous iterations without an open-ended research spiral. ## Loop Contract Before starting, lock these down: 1. Decision to change. 2. Current control or baseline. 3. Live hypotheses. 4. Iteration budget, usually 2-3 iterations. 5. Stop rule. 6. Return condition. If any of these are missing, infer the narrowest reasonable version and state it briefly. ## Design The Loop - Choose the smallest checks that can change the decision. - Freeze everything not under test. - Prefer one-variable changes over sweeps. - Stay on the cheapest discriminative surface first. - When a failure mode is easiest to see, prefer one decisive visual check over a larger batch of scalar metrics. - Do not widen the search space mid-loop unless the current loop is falsified. ## Run One Iteration At A Time For each iteration: 1. State the root-cause or causal hypothesis. 2. Make the minimal code or config change. 3. Run the nearest useful validation. 4. Interpret the result before launching the next step. 5. Update the plan or stop. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/bounded-auto-loop@sha256:b28d7dabac9a3367The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.3acf544, 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_ghtwnbn6mf6bp7az)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 20, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 130 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260728.3acf544 latest | 2026-07-28 | 3acf544 | 3,237 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260320.999ac68 | 2026-03-20 | 999ac68 | 2,510 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 (3237 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
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ghtwnbn6mf6bp7az GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/bounded-auto-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b28d7dabac9a3367a17754c6f96e2822bfb146c148a798f22c1fcbb4c228c8d2
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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.