paired-probe SKILL.md skillA

paired-probe from yonatangross/orchestkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yonatangross/orchestkit/paired-probe@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yonatangross/orchestkit
Path
plugins/ork/skills/paired-probe/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 22, 2026
Size
3,630 bytes
Repository stars
299
License
MIT

Refuses a verdict a check did not earn: runs it with the fault present and absent and blocks when both agree; catches zero-sample sweeps and swallowed errors. Use before reporting any status, audit or nothing-found result.

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

# paired-probe

**A check that prints the same thing whether or not the fault is present has
measured nothing.** It still returns an answer, that answer looks like evidence,
and it gets acted on. This skill makes the blindness fail loudly instead.

## When to reach for it

Before reporting any of these, because all of them are verdicts:

- "nothing found", "all clean", "no failures", "safe to delete"
- a sweep, audit, or status roll-up over N items
- a security or CI gate that just went green
- any check that passed when you expected it to fail

And immediately whenever a result *surprises* you by passing. Surprise is the
cheapest available signal that the instrument, not the world, is what changed.

## The three gates

| Gate | Question | Failure it catches |
|---|---|---|
| **Differential** | What does this print when the fault is ABSENT? | A probe that answers identically either way |
| **Non-empty** | How many items did it actually examine? | A sweep that measured zero and reported clean |
| **Exit-aware** | Did the probe itself run? | A swallowed error printing success |

Could-not-observe is a **third outcome**, never folded into either verdict.

## Usage

```bash
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yonatangross/orchestkit/paired-probe@sha256:a660539935e703e7

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ibhdy6jpbov2w6e7.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ibhdy6jpbov2w6e7)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 22, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 18 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-11-04 3036b27 3,630 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-28 220adb4 3,857 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-20 02cb935 3,833 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-29 2aed0b0 3,833 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-22 a2bfb67 3,833 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 (3630 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

yonatangross/orchestkit · 299 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ibhdy6jpbov2w6e7
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yonatangross/orchestkit/paired-probe
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a660539935e703e7905a10ea9e0da47aafe0bc9d5545cadb1566d73d74116c59

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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