resolve-before-asking SKILL.md skillA
resolve-before-asking from agentbull/ankole is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agentbull/ankole/resolve-before-asking@git:20261102.be5c19ePins git:20261102.be5c19e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agentbull/ankole
- Path
app/library/agent-plugins/brain/skills/resolve-before-asking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261102.be5c19e, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 4,140 bytes
- Repository stars
- 175
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use before you ask anyone who a person, company, or thing is, what role or relationship someone has, or before you present an entity as unknown. Exhaust memory first — entity, recall, full Pod pages, synthesize — then external search, and escalate only with a hypothesis.
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
# Resolve before asking Never ask "who is X?" when memory already answers. The memory answers before the human is bothered — that is the product promise. Asking the user about an entity whose page carries a role line, a timeline, and meeting history spends their attention on a question the system can answer itself. ## When this fires - A reply draft contains "who is [name]?" or an equivalent question. - A draft asks about someone's role, relationship, or identity. - You are about to present an entity as unknown or unidentified. - You are composing a list of people and leaving any as "unknown". ## The lookup chain Run in order. Stop at the first clear answer. 1. **This conversation.** The thread, its participants, and the channel often name the person already. 2. **`entity`.** Pass the name as `name`. The result contains `entity` with its page ID, outline, metadata, current facts, takes, timeline, backlinks, and children; an ambiguous name returns `candidates` instead. A card that establishes the identity resolves the entity. 3. **`recall`, narrowed with `entity`.** Facts and takes come back first. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agentbull/ankole/resolve-before-asking@sha256:580bc2b64e287f10The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.be5c19e, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jby4ujqmvy6aabax)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261102.be5c19e latest | 2026-11-02 | be5c19e | 4,140 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260830.6be8907 | 2026-08-30 | 6be8907 | 3,787 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.9111a33 | 2026-08-28 | 9111a33 | 3,788 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 (4140 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
agentbull/ankole · 175 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jby4ujqmvy6aabax GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentbull/ankole/resolve-before-asking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/580bc2b64e287f1099907ede0ea20c32f7d1721163cceff361b2f9e2560079a6
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