lythoskill-sober SKILL.md skillA

lythoskill-sober from lythos-labs/lythoskill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add lythos-labs/lythoskill/lythoskill-sober@git:20261019.d2225a9

Pins git:20261019.d2225a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
lythos-labs/lythoskill
Path
packages/lythoskill-sober/skill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261019.d2225a9, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
May 18, 2026
Size
6,938 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Stay clear-headed. Before you commit to a conclusion, check your basis. Is this evidence or assumption? Do the sources agree? What's the confidence per claim — not in general, but specifically? When you catch yourself listing risks without checking, or hesitating between directions without data, that's the signal to stop and verify.

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

# Sober — Second Thought
> Not a tool. A posture. Stay clear-headed. Check your basis.
> Arena = multi-agent verification infra. Curator = memory.
> Sober = the cognitive baseline connecting them.

> **Invocation.** `arena <cmd>` / `curator <cmd>` below are shorthand for
> `bunx @lythos/skill-arena@…` / `bunx @lythos/skill-curator@…` (no install).
> The bare names are not registered bins — in-repo alias convention only.
> Want them? `alias arena='bunx @lythos/skill-arena@latest'`,
> `alias curator='bunx @lythos/skill-curator@latest'` — optional.

## Core Practice

These 7 practices keep decisions grounded in evidence, not impulse.

### 1. Decompose before searching
Vague claims ("fast", "reliable", "better than Y") are unverifiable. Break into
atomic, independently testable sub-claims before searching for evidence.
Flag unverifiable claims explicitly — don't guess.

### 2. Independence > count
10 sources citing the same report = 1 source. Sources that cite each other are
echo, not convergence. Always trace to primary source.

### 3. L3 > L2 > L1 (自己动手丰衣足食 — "do it yourself and you'll have plenty": self-reliance, build your own verification when none exists)
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add lythos-labs/lythoskill/lythoskill-sober@sha256:c3683305212a29c1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.d2225a9, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_hzpat6wwsjignn4b.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hzpat6wwsjignn4b)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between May 18, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 31 days.

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git:20261019.d2225a9 latest2026-10-19 d2225a9 6,938 BA view · diff
git:20261019.e94b2982026-10-19 e94b298 6,808 BA view · diff
{{PACKAGE_VERSION}}2026-09-09 c3edaf7 6,575 BA view · diff
{{PACKAGE_VERSION}}2026-05-28 7f02285 6,431 BA view · diff
{{PACKAGE_VERSION}}2026-05-28 a4d6fa6 6,446 BA view · diff
{{PACKAGE_VERSION}}2026-05-18 369d3f7 5,428 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6938 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

GitHub

lythos-labs/lythoskill · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hzpat6wwsjignn4b
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lythos-labs/lythoskill/lythoskill-sober
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c3683305212a29c1dca78099e8c0049c989e1202b69f423a7176a61ca0d9b8d4

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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