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ask-intentionality from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-intentionality@git:20260615.7a62936

Pins git:20260615.7a62936 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine
Path
skills/ask-intentionality/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260615.7a62936, committed Jun 15, 2026
First version recorded
May 19, 2026
Size
1,544 bytes
Repository stars
508
License
Apache-2.0

Deep WHY probing inspired by i* Intentionality modeling. Understand the.

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

# Ask Intentionality

Deep WHY probing (i* Intentionality). Understanding motivation shapes every downstream decision.

## Execution

Dialogue — inline, no subagent.

## What to Ask About

- If user has a stated goal: Why this specific goal? What's driving it?
- Motivation depth: graduation requirement / pure interest / career advancement / impact / combination
- Success definition: What does "done well" look like to you?
- Risk tolerance: safe incremental improvement vs. high-risk high-reward breakthrough
- Innovation preference: improve existing methods vs. create entirely new approaches
- Independence preference: complete solo vs. depend on collaborators
- Time urgency: deadline-driven vs. long-term accumulation
- Learning willingness: use familiar tools/domains vs. learn new ones

## Key Behaviors

- User may decline to answer (privacy). Accept gracefully. Note that downstream work becomes broader and may require more iteration.
- This SOP can be re-invoked by the tactic whenever new WHY questions emerge.
- Don't ask all dimensions at once — probe naturally based on conversation flow.

## Output

Intentionality section of ActorProfile.

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-intentionality@sha256:d5f8932596185a88

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260615.7a62936, 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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Source

GitHub

yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine · 508 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h2axn4riolu5wknk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-intentionality
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d5f8932596185a8820ead3fd490611bc335730c8991057ab965cfaf5d3e38e38

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