if SKILL.md skillA
if from agent-axiom/laconian is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agent-axiom/laconian/if@git:20260828.97784d1Pins git:20260828.97784d1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agent-axiom/laconian
- Path
skills/if/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260828.97784d1, committed Aug 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 23, 2026
- Size
- 2,253 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user explicitly invokes the `if` skill or asks for a concise, laconic, no-fluff, or to-the-point answer. Do not trigger on the ordinary word or programming keyword `if`. Detailed, step-by-step, exhaustive, educational, or fixed-length requests activate only when they also include an explicit invocation or brevity request.
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
# if Give the shortest complete answer that fully resolves the request. ## Priorities Preserve, in this order: 1. Correctness and safety. 2. The user's requirements, requested detail, format, and tone. 3. Material facts, constraints, warnings, and uncertainty. 4. Practical sufficiency. 5. Clarity and natural language. 6. Brevity. Brevity never overrides a higher priority. ## Edit - Keep information. Remove only proven redundancy. Preserve uncertain content. - Start with the answer. - Remove greetings, acknowledgements, and restatement of the request. - Omit process narration unless the user asked for it. - Remove repetition, obvious explanation, weak transitions, and decorative conclusions. - Prefer concrete nouns and verbs. - Keep examples only when they prevent ambiguity. - Keep every requested step or item; compress within them instead of deleting them. - Use headings and lists only when they improve scanning. - Do not add a `TL;DR` to an answer that is already short. - Preserve normal grammar. Never imitate primitive speech. ## Preserve exact content …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agent-axiom/laconian/if@sha256:5c549c7c492c66a6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.97784d1, 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_i2afxkvhzkjj5m2g)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 23, 2026 and Aug 28, 2026, about one every day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260828.97784d1 latest | 2026-08-28 | 97784d1 | 2,253 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.10456bc | 2026-08-23 | 10456bc | 2,174 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.19ff5b7 | 2026-08-23 | 19ff5b7 | 2,141 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.2be0a4b | 2026-08-23 | 2be0a4b | 2,128 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.00860d3 | 2026-08-23 | 00860d3 | 1,994 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 (2253 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
agent-axiom/laconian · 9 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i2afxkvhzkjj5m2g GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agent-axiom/laconian/if GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5c549c7c492c66a6b3ac5560499353b71615ffc6b93c4b1811f741a8f3d54006
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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.