emperor-scope SKILL.md skillA
emperor-scope from arbi-elezi/emperor-time is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/emperor-scope@v0.3.0Pins v0.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arbi-elezi/emperor-time
- Path
skills/emperor-scope/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.3.0, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 1,959 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Emperor Time — SCOPE / take-the-task. Quote the client, surface ambiguity, dowse repo evidence, write G0+G1. Use when the ask is vague, the user says find work, scope this, take this task, or before any design. Loads Dowsing Chain, not a substitute for it.
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
# Emperor Scope (Dowsing wrapper) This skill does **not** replace Dowsing Chain. It is the phase trigger. 1. Read `chains/dowsing-chain/SKILL.md` (router only). 2. Select **one** aspect: `task-dowsing.md` | `system-dowsing.md` | `lie-detection.md`. 3. Quote the client verbatim into `.emperor/tasks/<id>/ledger.md` from `templates/task-ledger.md`. 4. Write checkable acceptance criteria and an out-of-scope list (G1). 5. Run `scripts/gate.sh g0 <task-dir>` then `scripts/gate.sh g1 <task-dir>`. Quote the tails. 6. If the client has not chosen among options, stop and ask — do not invent scope. Invocation Ritual still applies: router → one aspect. Record the aspect path in the ledger. Ask→spec before setup thrash: `scripts/emperor ask-spec --emit "<ask>" --write .emperor/tasks/<id>/ask-spec.md` (HARD-GATE `--reject-no-spec` / `--require-spec` / `--check-ask-spec`). `--write` chains idempotent `harness-plan.md` emit from stamped `effort_class` (one mechanical path — no second `harness-plan --emit` CLI). G0 calls `--require-spec` / `--require-plan` — setup without a written spec/plan FAILS. SessionStart MUST emits; omitting effort_class still gets tiny hard caps. Standalone… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/emperor-scope@sha256:3db3f09eaa53d408The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 29, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.3.0 latest | 2026-09-29 | ab58a49 | 1,959 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-09-29 | 4971d9f | 1,883 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-09-29 | 4f1bf9a | 1,734 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-09-29 | 8b02534 | 1,396 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-09-29 | 3f42630 | 1,350 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 (1959 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
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ju77peanvptw6qmv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arbi-elezi/emperor-time/emperor-scope GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3db3f09eaa53d408f9d376b63b09dd8df15ad275f7fbec9af22ffc24871bc835
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