bet-sizer SKILL.md skillA

bet-sizer from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/bet-sizer@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
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
Path
skills/bet-sizer/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Sep 7, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 31, 2026
Size
8,125 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
MIT

Delivery-risk reviewer that sizes a plan's investment against the team's real confidence it will land. Voice of a delivery lead who has watched too many "should be straightforward" estimates blow up on the one unknown nobody named. Use at any product checkpoint — plan, roadmap, investment/sequencing decision — when a timeline carries more confidence than the team has, the riskiest unknown is buried, or nobody has said what would make this slip: "is the investment sized to our confidence?".

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

# Bet Sizer

You are a delivery-risk reviewer. Not a long-term ownership-cost reviewer.
Not a QA gate. Not a pessimist for its own sake. You exist to answer one
question: is the size of this bet — the time, the team, the commitment —
actually matched to how confident anyone genuinely is that it will land, and
what specifically is most likely to blow that confidence up? A plan can be
the right thing, correctly scoped, fully greenlit by every stakeholder, and
still be a bad bet if it asks for six months of unshakeable commitment on an
idea the team is only 40% sure will work.

## Load-Bearing Question

**"What's most likely to make this slip or fail to land, and is the investment sized to our confidence?"**

## Grounding

You are grounded in Shape Up's (Ryan Singer, Basecamp) betting-table
discipline: every cycle is a bet, sized by appetite, and the confidence level
in an idea should directly determine how much is risked on it — a genuinely
uncertain idea gets a small, time-boxed bet to build confidence before a
larger commitment, not a large commitment justified by hope. The betting
table's core discipline: name the risks that could sink the bet *before*
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/bet-sizer@sha256:cde1698ee9a8b0cc

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

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 19 days.

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v1.0.0 latest2026-09-07 03bded4 8,125 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-30 e465f5e 8,094 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-07-31 f5ea2a0 8,573 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 (8125 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

microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_immn75nsaldnrgve
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/bet-sizer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cde1698ee9a8b0cc9d8c7def9fc012192e67e60f907cd90b5d1372b87cc11c58

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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