stress-testing-argument SKILL.md skillA
stress-testing-argument from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/stress-testing-argument@v2.1.0Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers
- Path
skills/stress-testing-argument/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 11,407 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Use when a thesis, concept, interpretation, or manuscript needs disciplined adversarial testing against counterexamples, rival explanations, category errors, scale violations, false novelty, and unresolved ethical risks.
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
# Stress-Testing an Argument ## Purpose Identify the strongest informed objections to an argument, rank their severity, and specify repairs without reducing the thesis to a trivial claim. The skill challenges evidence, warrants, concepts, scope, method, ethics, and novelty while preserving fair representation. ## Contract **Accepts** - A thesis, enabling claims, argument map, evidence inventory, and scope boundary. - Optional rival theories, disciplinary criteria, reviewer comments, or venue expectations. **Requires** - A sufficiently explicit argument to reconstruct charitably. - Access to the evidence and warrants being tested. - Separation between verified criticism and hypothetical reviewer concerns. **Produces** - A steelmanned argument summary. - Ranked `Objection` records. - Alternative explanations and counterexamples. - Recommended responses: rebut, concede, narrow, redesign, or defer. - A stress-test gate report. **May produce** - A revised thesis or scope boundary for researcher approval. - A fatal-flaw report. - `FAIL` when the argument cannot survive without abandoning its central contribution. **Fails when** - The argument or evidence is unavailable. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/stress-testing-argument@sha256:57da47678f692bc8The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 29 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v2.1.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | 1bc2e1c | 11,407 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-08-21 | 5d72da4 | 11,407 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-19 | 262e1c6 | 9,994 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 (11407 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
icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_j5mhquddw3ntcwkt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/stress-testing-argument GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/57da47678f692bc81ceefcd3ced9bfa5d49ebedd7774e8c6cbaf6ad1516098da
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