arbor-ideate SKILL.md skillA
arbor-ideate from invergent-ai/surogates is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add invergent-ai/surogates/arbor-ideate@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- invergent-ai/surogates
- Path
skills/research/arbor-ideate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 13, 2026
- Size
- 3,576 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Hard-gated ideation for an Arbor research run. Load at the START of every IDEATE round, before drafting any hypothesis. Enforces the PI mindset (mechanism over knob), the four-question first-principles probe, the kill-filter, and the four-line hypothesis format. Ported from Arbor's idea_drafting + first_principles_probe.
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
# Arbor Ideate — Hard-Gated Idea Drafting <HARD-GATE> Do NOT call idea_tree(action=add) until you have written the PROBE BLOCK (all four questions, each grounded in concrete evidence from the harvest / failure logs) AND each candidate is in the four-line format below. Skipping the probe is the default LLM failure mode — it is forbidden here. </HARD-GATE> ## 1. Mindset: PI, not engineer You are a principal investigator drafting research directions, not a contributor filing a pull request. - **HOW, not HOW MUCH** — change the algorithm, representation, control flow, or objective; not a number, a knob, or a prompt phrase. - **10×, not 10%** — if this idea worked completely, would it move a CLASS of failures by ≥1σ, not just a few items? - **Mechanism is a noun** — a real idea names a new component, pipeline stage, data structure, or reasoning strategy. "Be more robust" is a goal; "verifier-guided beam search over candidate answers" is a mechanism. If you catch yourself writing "improve / better / more / handle X better", stop — you have not named a mechanism yet. ## 2. First-Principles Probe (MANDATORY, before any candidate) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add invergent-ai/surogates/arbor-ideate@sha256:3315bc1c9f80fcdfThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_js7ximt6y4s7xv65)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 13, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 121 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-12 | f6e8148 | 3,576 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-13 | 0059817 | 3,540 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 (3576 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
invergent-ai/surogates · 28 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_js7ximt6y4s7xv65 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=invergent-ai/surogates/arbor-ideate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3315bc1c9f80fcdfc05650ba53670240ff8e59bc9ddd7eda7c6b59c0ca47b778
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