estimated-tax-safety-buffer SKILL.md skillA
estimated-tax-safety-buffer from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/estimated-tax-safety-buffer@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
estimated-tax-safety-buffer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 2,905 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: self-employed / K-1 / variable-income client planning quarterly 1040-ES; 'how much should I set aside?', 'will I owe a penalty?', volatile income year. Do NOT activate when: W-2 withholding fully covers liability. More: deciqai.com/s/estimated-tax-safety-buffer.
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
# Tax Prep — Estimated-Tax Safe-Harbor Buffer > **Industry front door for [margin-of-safety](../margin-of-safety/SKILL.md).** Adds domain triggers, example, packs only. Parent Process unchanged. > **Not legal or tax advice.** Confirm safe-harbor percentages against current IRC §6654/§6655. **Activate when:** self-employed / K-1 / variable-income client planning quarterly 1040-ES; "how much should I set aside?", "will I owe a penalty?", volatile income year. **Do NOT activate when:** W-2 withholding fully covers liability. ## Why this variant The parent [margin-of-safety](../margin-of-safety/SKILL.md) sizes a buffer against estimation error. Estimated taxes are exactly that: pay enough to clear a **safe harbor** so a bad income estimate never triggers an underpayment penalty. The safe harbor *is* the margin of safety. ## Domain inputs → parent's Process - Floor = safe harbor: generally 90% of current-year tax **or** 100% of prior-year (110% if prior AGI > $150k). - Buffer sizing: pay to the *higher-certainty* harbor (prior-year is known; current-year is a guess). - Volatility: for lumpy income, use annualized-income installment method rather than flat quarters. …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/estimated-tax-safety-buffer@sha256:cddf215b8b9f99fbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 2,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 2,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 2,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 2,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 2,905 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 (2905 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jrpnt6uxok4mawjj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/estimated-tax-safety-buffer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cddf215b8b9f99fbe2e2e8e098536c5b0ea7297b30bfe163ff7709e80d455728
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