rethink SKILL.md skillA
rethink from reidemeister94/development-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add reidemeister94/development-skills/rethink@git:20260920.5f06936Pins git:20260920.5f06936 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- reidemeister94/development-skills
- Path
skills/rethink/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260920.5f06936, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 871 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants a proposal or approach reconsidered from first principles, or when evidence shows the current design is weak.
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
# Rethink Rebuild the proposal from the required outcome and verified real-world constraints. Identify assumptions, remove those that evidence does not support, and test the remaining constraints against concrete cases. Compare genuinely different approaches. State each approach's costs, failure modes, reversibility, and proof needs. Use `development-skills:best-practices` when current external evidence can change the choice. Recommend the simplest consistent design that meets the outcome. Explain why it is better than the current proposal and what evidence would overturn the recommendation. Return the result to the active development workflow before implementation.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add reidemeister94/development-skills/rethink@sha256:8c12cdfab368db50The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.5f06936, 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_hkqk7kfzwjrc5tmo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 19, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260920.5f06936 latest | 2026-09-20 | 5f06936 | 871 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.a9f7da5 | 2026-09-19 | a9f7da5 | 852 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 (871 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
reidemeister94/development-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hkqk7kfzwjrc5tmo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=reidemeister94/development-skills/rethink GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c12cdfab368db5003e385f64d7981beeb58efcec58f2bd621939bd82eef5aa6
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.