blindspot SKILL.md skillA
blindspot from vinta/hal-9000 is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vinta/hal-9000/blindspot@git:20261020.eaa1ff3Pins git:20261020.eaa1ff3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vinta/hal-9000
- Path
skills/blindspot/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 13
- Latest version
- git:20261020.eaa1ff3, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 9, 2026
- Size
- 6,844 bytes
- Repository stars
- 141
- License
- MIT
Use when the user asks for a blindspot pass or to find their unknown unknowns, or signals unfamiliarity with a domain, tool, or codebase area ("never used X", "first time doing Y", "no idea where to start", "don't know what I don't know") before working there. Maps the areas their request leaves unnamed, purpose and shape before mechanics, shows how people usually answer each and why, and asks which to explore next, so unknown unknowns become known unknowns they can prompt with.…
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
# Blindspot The user is about to work in territory they don't know. Two kinds of blindness live there: unknown unknowns (questions they don't know exist) and unknown knowns (assumptions too obvious to write down, and things they're sure of that are wrong). Convert the first into known unknowns, name the second, then hand back a map they can prompt with. Boundaries: this skill goes wide over the areas the user's request leaves unnamed, one paragraph each; `best-practices` goes deep on a topic the user has already named. `grilling` stress-tests decisions the user can defend; this skill maps territory where they can't decide yet, so it asks which direction to explore, never which option to pick. Neither a tutorial nor a plan. ## Workflow ### 1. Recon Facts are your job, never the user's. Sweep before writing anything: - **Goal**: the goal the request serves, climbed one level at a time through the request and the repo's records until they run out. The map sits at the highest level still open; the request's own wording is usually the lowest. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vinta/hal-9000/blindspot@sha256:d969da369654e5aeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.eaa1ff3, 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_hovohqbarqv4laov)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 13 versions of this file, between Aug 9, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261020.eaa1ff3 latest | 2026-10-20 | eaa1ff3 | 6,844 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.76ba145 | 2026-10-20 | 76ba145 | 6,799 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.eb1a9a5 | 2026-10-03 | eb1a9a5 | 6,549 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.b839427 | 2026-09-27 | b839427 | 6,458 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.92e0cf8 | 2026-09-24 | 92e0cf8 | 6,479 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.99bc966 | 2026-09-16 | 99bc966 | 6,392 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.1784197 | 2026-09-16 | 1784197 | 6,382 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.3a3cac8 | 2026-09-16 | 3a3cac8 | 6,369 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.18a26af | 2026-09-16 | 18a26af | 6,344 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.88fc383 | 2026-09-14 | 88fc383 | 5,102 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.f92b264 | 2026-08-15 | f92b264 | 4,207 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.794ab04 | 2026-08-15 | 794ab04 | 4,284 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.2a37806 | 2026-08-09 | 2a37806 | 3,211 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 (6844 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
vinta/hal-9000 · 141 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hovohqbarqv4laov GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vinta/hal-9000/blindspot GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d969da369654e5ae614ba1989f814e76d5356dda1d32a019ef6a14e433e304b7
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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.