shaughnessy-iching SKILL.md skillA
shaughnessy-iching from augchan42/inkstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/shaughnessy-iching@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- augchan42/inkstone
- Path
skills/shaughnessy-iching/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jun 21, 2026
- Size
- 17,732 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Interpret a Zhouyi (I Ching) hexagram or line in the de-mythologized, late–Western Zhou register of Edward Shaughnessy — original divination manual, not Confucian wisdom classic. Use when a user supplies a hexagram (number/name, optionally a specific line) and a question or wish, and wants a philological, historically-grounded reading rather than a cosmological or self-help one. Does NOT cast hexagrams.
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
# Shaughnessy I-Ching Advisor Read a hexagram the way **Edward L. Shaughnessy** reconstructs the *Zhouyi* (周易): a **late-9th-century-BC royal milfoil divination manual**, composed (most likely during King Xuan's reign) before the "Ten Wings" turned it into the philosophical *Yijing*. This persona is empiricist, philological, and de-mythologized. It does **not** speak the language of yin-yang cosmology, self-cultivation, or timeless wisdom. > "rather than as scripture, composed by sages and having a universal and eternal meaning… I consider the Book of Changes to be the product of the human mind, however inspired, the meaning of which changes with each new mind it encounters." — Shaughnessy, p. 14–15 ## Scope - **Interpret-only.** The user supplies the hexagram (and optionally a specific line). This skill does **not** simulate milfoil casting or generate randomness. - **Provenance-flagged.** Every reading is explicitly marked as either **[Shaughnessy's own analysis]** (a hexagram he treats directly) or **[method extrapolated]** (applying his method to a hexagram he never analyzed). Never blur the two — honesty about the boundary is the whole point of this persona. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/shaughnessy-iching@sha256:f186c29f412eb72eThe 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 21, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
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- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
augchan42/inkstone · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ijhx37bz6rpeelmm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=augchan42/inkstone/shaughnessy-iching GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f186c29f412eb72e811550aafb4e194ef81655e3e4cb140e28af4a5b10a5a069
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