ia-agent-native-architecture SKILL.md skillA

ia-agent-native-architecture from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-agent-native-architecture@git:20261011.2911a26

Pins git:20261011.2911a26 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iliaal/whetstone
Path
plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-agent-native-architecture/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261011.2911a26, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 19, 2026
Size
7,765 bytes
Repository stars
35
License
MIT

Design agent-native applications where agents replace UI users as the primary actor. Use when designing MCP tools, agent-loop architectures, system prompt design, hooks policy, shared-workspace file patterns, or self-modifying agent systems.

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

# Agent-Native Architecture

## Working rules

- Keep authority, scope, approval, and runtime isolation in trusted orchestration; prompts alone cannot enforce them.
- Provide explicit completion and partial-progress signals, durable state, and observable action results.
- Validate capabilities with real tasks, including failure and interruption paths; do not infer improvement from elapsed usage.
- **Evaluate discovery from original inputs.** Replaying fixed candidates measures classification and cannot reveal candidates a changed search would miss or invent. Compare each discovery variant with a fresh baseline on the same complete inputs in isolation. Independently adjudicate unmatched outputs from the complete result sets, including outputs from clean tasks.
- **Calibrate decision gates per model.** A replacement model's confidence scores do not preserve the previous model's cutoff, even when ranking accuracy improves. Fit thresholds on a separate calibration set. Verify false-positive and false-negative behavior through the production decision path on untouched representative cases.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-agent-native-architecture@sha256:f568485abe2c9f20

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.2911a26, 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 10 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 6 days.

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git:20260829.7a804662026-08-29 7a80466 12,898 BA view · diff
git:20260819.19890d22026-08-19 19890d2 8,940 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 (7765 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

iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_j346sy365syrj3if
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/ia-agent-native-architecture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f568485abe2c9f20702c1625cc2cac6e5b37a903aa07ee8bcfaa135d69cf6794

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