nasa-pm-lessons SKILL.md skillB

nasa-pm-lessons from pantheon-org/tekhne is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/nasa-pm-lessons@git:20260824.34ad58b

Pins git:20260824.34ad58b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pantheon-org/tekhne
Path
skills/project-mgmt/nasa-pm-lessons/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260824.34ad58b, committed Aug 24, 2026
Size
7,101 bytes
Repository stars
10
License
MIT

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

# NASA PM Lessons (LLIS #1956)

## Source

Jerry Madden, former Associate Director of Flight Projects, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center — aphorisms collected over 37 years, first published in ASK Magazine, October 2003.
<https://llis.nasa.gov/lesson/1956>

The reference files below paraphrase the source in each category's own words rather than quoting it at length — treat them as a judgment aid, not a verbatim transcript. Consult the source URL for
Madden's original phrasing and full elaboration.

## Prerequisites

Only apply this skill when the situation actually matches one of the trigger scenarios below. If it doesn't, skip this skill entirely rather than forcing a fit.

## When to Use

| Scenario                                                                  | Load                                                 |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Root cause / incident writeup (journal troubleshooting entries)           | `references/design-engineering.md`                   |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/nasa-pm-lessons@sha256:2d8ea0348e8f30fd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260824.34ad58b, 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.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 24, 2026.

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Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7101 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ji65yynbynijfmv7
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pantheon-org/tekhne/nasa-pm-lessons
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2d8ea0348e8f30fd857d16bb399f6fb3939e0f4dab7072dff55fb91d91c6103c

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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