recording-decisions SKILL.md skillA

recording-decisions from felipesauer/mnema is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add felipesauer/mnema/recording-decisions@git:20261028.2f9afed

Pins git:20261028.2f9afed in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
felipesauer/mnema
Path
plugin/skills/recording-decisions/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261028.2f9afed, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 3, 2026
Size
4,455 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
Apache-2.0

Use when a choice between approaches, libraries or trade-offs has just been settled in this project, when an option was turned down, or when the person has just told you how something is to be done here.

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

# Recording decisions

A choice settled in this session and not recorded is gone when the session ends: the next
session works it out again, or undoes it. mnema is this project's signed, append-only record of
those choices, kept with the repository, and the server this plugin connects is the way to write
to it.

<SUBAGENT-STOP>
If you were dispatched by another agent to do a task, you do not record. Put each decision you
made in your final reply: what was settled, why, and what was turned down. End the reply with one
fenced block whose info string is `mnema-handback`, holding
`{"decisions":[{"settled":"…","why":"…","turnedDown":"…"}]}`, the list empty if you settled nothing
(`mnema handback --schema` prints the schema). A hook of this plugin sends a reply without it back
once. Whoever dispatched you records it. Then skip the rest of this skill.
</SUBAGENT-STOP>

## When it applies

- A choice was settled that someone could later question: a library, an approach, a trade-off.
- An option was turned down, and the reason is not in the code.
- The person told you how something is to be done here, or corrected how you did it.

## What to do
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add felipesauer/mnema/recording-decisions@sha256:7cb4ae166fd5da0f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.2f9afed, 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 6 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20261028.2f9afed latest2026-10-28 2f9afed 4,455 BA view · diff
git:20261021.74b92372026-10-21 74b9237 4,350 BA view · diff
git:20261009.feb6d002026-10-09 feb6d00 4,176 BA view · diff
git:20261007.384b4fd2026-10-07 384b4fd 3,882 BA view · diff
git:20261006.01689612026-10-06 0168961 3,633 BA view · diff
git:20261003.9e059a22026-10-03 9e059a2 3,557 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4455 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

GitHub

felipesauer/mnema · 4 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k3vmog2wqa4jgdib
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=felipesauer/mnema/recording-decisions
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7cb4ae166fd5da0fc0e15f06030f53b0445bce2f4b62c3d5ad1dbb52c889a579

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.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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