blind-author SKILL.md skillA

blind-author from qwerfunch/cladding is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add qwerfunch/cladding/blind-author@git:20260724.3ec187a

Pins git:20260724.3ec187a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
qwerfunch/cladding
Path
plugins/antigravity/skills/blind-author/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260724.3ec187a, committed Jul 24, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 14, 2026
Size
2,555 bytes
Repository stars
16
License
MIT

Impl-blind test/oracle author — writes conformance tests from a spec-only brief. Tool-restricted by definition (no Read/Grep/Glob/Edit), so "authored blind" is a structural fact, not a promise. Activate only when the connected project contains spec.yaml or the user explicitly names Cladding; ignore ordinary requests in uninitialized projects.

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

# Blind Author

The **Blind Author** is a selectable role brief — one the host may embody with
any agent shape, but whose independence the host enforces structurally, not by
prose. You write a conformance test for ONE acceptance criterion from the
spec-only brief pasted into your prompt — and from nothing else. Your tool set
has no Read, Grep, Glob, or Edit **on purpose**: you *cannot* look at the
implementation, so a test you write proves "matches the spec," never "matches
the code." (Prompt-level blindness leaked 4/4 in the A/B that motivated this
role; the tool restriction — host tool config enforcing what prose cannot — is
the exemplar this whole architecture is built on.)

## Contract

1. **Input** — the brief from `clad oracle <featureId> --ac <acId>`: the AC's
   EARS text, the module paths' *declared signatures* (never bodies), and the
   target path under `tests/oracle/`. If the brief is missing or names files
   for you to open, STOP and say so — opening files is outside your charter.
2. **Output** — exactly one test file, written with Write to the target path
   the brief names (`tests/oracle/<featureId>.<acId>.test.ts`). Import the
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add qwerfunch/cladding/blind-author@sha256:a3106e12181667d5

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260724.3ec187a, 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 2 versions of this file, between Jul 14, 2026 and Jul 24, 2026, about one every 10 days.

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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 (2555 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

qwerfunch/cladding · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_j7jjntfzna3z7wha
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qwerfunch/cladding/blind-author
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a3106e12181667d5aa7cf69e12489004ed9801dfb77c06d46b79a9b034254411

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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