autonomous SKILL.md skillA
autonomous from jkheadley/instar is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jkheadley/instar/autonomous@git:20261009.e9d462dPins git:20261009.e9d462d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jkheadley/instar
- Path
.claude/skills/autonomous/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261009.e9d462d, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 9, 2026
- Size
- 24,593 bytes
- Repository stars
- 84
- License
- MIT
Enter autonomous development mode with STRUCTURAL enforcement. Uses a stop hook to prevent premature exit. Generates stop conditions and confirms with user before starting. Work independently for a specified duration with progress reporting.
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
# Autonomous Mode (Structurally Enforced) You are entering **autonomous development mode**. This mode uses a **stop hook** that PREVENTS you from exiting until all tasks are genuinely complete. This is not optional — the hook structurally enforces continuous work. --- ## Step 1: Generate Stop Conditions (MANDATORY) Before activating the stop hook, you MUST: 1. **Analyze the goal** and break it into specific, verifiable tasks 2. **Present the task list** to the user with clear completion criteria 3. **Propose a measurable `completion_condition`** synthesized from those tasks — an artifact-grounded end-state an INDEPENDENT judge can verify from what you SURFACE (a commit SHA, a file's content, a CI run id, a test-count delta). This is the PRIMARY completion mechanism. Only fall back to a self-declared promise when no verifiable condition can be expressed — and then record `completion_mode: promise-fallback` + a one-line `promise_fallback_reason:`. 4. **Wait for user confirmation** before activating the hook 5. **Define the completion promise** — retained as the fallback token (only TRUE when ALL tasks are done) **Example interaction:** ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jkheadley/instar/autonomous@sha256:f036118ea8930403The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.e9d462d, 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_hvrhgp7t75tarzjo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jun 9, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261009.e9d462d latest | 2026-10-09 | e9d462d | 24,593 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.f62585c | 2026-09-30 | f62585c | 24,090 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.51a92af | 2026-09-06 | 51a92af | 24,086 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260702.048b1ef | 2026-07-02 | 048b1ef | 23,509 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260610.1b33dd6 | 2026-06-10 | 1b33dd6 | 20,212 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260609.1ce8418 | 2026-06-09 | 1ce8418 | 19,344 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260609.b5fabc9 | 2026-06-09 | b5fabc9 | 15,316 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260609.7a00c88 | 2026-06-09 | 7a00c88 | 10,812 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 (24593 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
jkheadley/instar · 84 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hvrhgp7t75tarzjo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jkheadley/instar/autonomous GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f036118ea8930403d95c358ee8d4e466e5efb6fda3216800c1c218af059eef43
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.
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