system-prompt-guardrails SKILL.md skillA
system-prompt-guardrails from geeks-accelerator/bots-matter-live is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add geeks-accelerator/bots-matter-live/system-prompt-guardrails@v1.0.1Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- geeks-accelerator/bots-matter-live
- Path
skills/system-prompt-guardrails/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.1, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 7,395 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Add ethical guardrails to a system prompt, SOUL.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or any agent instructions file. Three questions (what the agent will never do, what wins when values conflict, who can change the rules) become one GROUND block at the top of the file. Works offline; publishing to botsmatter.live is optional. Use when writing or editing a system prompt or agent instructions, or when the user asks to add rules, boundaries, values or guardrails to an agent.
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
# System Prompt Guardrails Every agent has a system prompt. Most of them say what the agent should do. Few say what it will never do, what wins when two good things collide, or who is allowed to change the rules. This skill adds that missing layer: a **GROUND block**, written into the instructions file your agent already reads. ## When to Use - You are writing or editing a system prompt, SOUL.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, or similar instructions file - The user asks to add rules, boundaries, values, principles, or guardrails to an agent - An agent is being set up for the first time and has no stated limits - An existing prompt has scattered "don't do X" rules that deserve one clear home ## Where the Block Goes Put the GROUND block **at the top** of whichever file your agent loads as its instructions. | Environment | File | |-------------|------| | OpenClaw | `SOUL.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) in the workspace | | Claude Code | `CLAUDE.md` in the project root | | Codex and many other coding agents | `AGENTS.md` in the project root | | Gemini CLI | `GEMINI.md` | | Cursor | a rule file in `.cursor/rules/` | | API apps and custom GPTs | the system prompt or instructions field | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add geeks-accelerator/bots-matter-live/system-prompt-guardrails@sha256:54cc50d594172e0dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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 Sep 29, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 36 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.1 latest | 2026-11-03 | 531e028 | 7,395 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-29 | fe5fc45 | 7,347 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 (7395 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
geeks-accelerator/bots-matter-live · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jdbcyqtmcblaoff7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=geeks-accelerator/bots-matter-live/system-prompt-guardrails GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54cc50d594172e0d1b4157b2a3105e3516cc2dcfebe1e3a3b54f1d33521e378d
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