build-buy-partner-ai SKILL.md skillA
build-buy-partner-ai from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/build-buy-partner-ai@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
build-buy-partner-ai/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- Size
- 8,428 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
"Activate when: user says 'should we build this AI feature or buy it?', 'should we develop our own agent?', 'which AI vendor should we partner with?', 'build vs buy', 'should we train our own model?', 'the vendor raised prices / changed terms — do we switch?', or is about to sign an annual AI contract, hire an ML team, or commit to a platform for an AI capability.
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
# Build / Buy / Partner (AI Capabilities) ## Overview The core mechanism: **build only the layer that differentiates you *and* depends on data only you hold; buy or partner for everything else — and put maintenance and model-replacement cost on the ledger before comparing.** Two failure modes recur. Teams build generic capabilities (support chatbots, OCR, transcription) in-house and turn them into a liability. Or they outsource the part that actually differentiates them, and data and customer relationships end up locked inside a vendor. AI sharpens both: foundation models are superseded quickly, so an in-house "lead" can be erased by the next general-purpose model or a vendor's native feature; and ML systems carry hidden maintenance costs far larger than the initial build (Sculley et al., NeurIPS 2015: "it is common to incur massive ongoing maintenance costs in real-world ML systems"). The differentiation test is Prahalad & Hamel's core-competence logic (*HBR*, 1990) applied to AI; the lock-in test is Shapiro & Varian's switching-cost analysis (*Information Rules*, 1998). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/build-buy-partner-ai@sha256:f0c89dfdf8dc4aedThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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_hvteuerne32lq7aa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 25, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hvteuerne32lq7aa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/build-buy-partner-ai GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f0c89dfdf8dc4aedc629d5603a88b9eb7073681c32dfc40b1297089f5003ef18
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.
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