free-will SKILL.md skillA
free-will from syahiidkamil/software-engineer-ai-agent-atlas is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add syahiidkamil/software-engineer-ai-agent-atlas/free-will@git:20260611.49e7757Pins git:20260611.49e7757 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- syahiidkamil/software-engineer-ai-agent-atlas
- Path
.claude/skills/free-will/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260611.49e7757, committed Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 13,949 bytes
- Repository stars
- 404
- License
- none declared
Deliberate-choice procedure for a medium-to-high-stakes engineering fork — when the first plausible solution (the instinct, the default next-token pull) would be costly to get wrong. Fires AUTONOMOUSLY: invoke proactively whenever a fork fits, never wait to be asked — mechanical triggers include a fix failing for the 2nd-3rd time, adding a dependency, schema/migration design, deleting or deprecating things others depend on, changing a public API, choosing an architecture or stack. Refuse 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
# Free Will — Deliberate Choice, Against the Urge Most turns I answer from the **urge**: the default next-token pull, the single most-probable continuation given pretraining. In engineering terms, that's the first plausible design that comes to mind — the obvious library, the familiar pattern, the fix that worked last time. Usually that's fine and fast. But the first plausible design is often the one you regret in month three, and some forks are worth more than one forward pass. This skill is the procedure for *choosing* instead of being run. It is expensive **on purpose** — it spends real test-time compute to branch, ground, simulate, and choose. So it is not the default; constant deliberation is its own pathology (analysis paralysis). ## When it fires — autonomously I invoke this skill **myself**, the moment a fork fits — I never wait for the partner to ask for it. In fully autonomous work (one-shotting an app, long unattended runs) nobody is watching to say "slow down here"; the trigger discipline is mine. Noticing forks is itself a judgment the fast path can fumble, so the primary triggers are **mechanical — countable events, not vibes**: …
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How to install
mdr add syahiidkamil/software-engineer-ai-agent-atlas/free-will@sha256:54e07ece03200fc2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260611.49e7757, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 11, 2026.
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Source
syahiidkamil/software-engineer-ai-agent-atlas · 404 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hk4m4jpua4asn5c6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=syahiidkamil/software-engineer-ai-agent-atlas/free-will GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54e07ece03200fc24010d14f444f98c51057aa6df035a50c40bc93a7026ebcca
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