sensemaking SKILL.md skillA
sensemaking from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/sensemaking@git:20260921.9b3de7cPins git:20260921.9b3de7c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
- Path
skills/sensemaking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260921.9b3de7c, committed Sep 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 20, 2026
- Size
- 6,271 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Check whether findings make sense before trusting or reporting them by comparing to the nearest reference, asking what mechanism could explain them, and naming a falsifier. Use when the agent is interpreting results, summarizing progress, assessing regressions, or deciding whether an observation should change the plan.
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
# Sensemaking ## Use It As A Default Habit - Compose this skill with domain skills instead of replacing them. - Use it whenever you are about to trust, summarize, or act on a finding. - Default question: does this result actually make sense, and if so, what should change because of it? ## Use This Output Contract When using this skill, structure the reasoning as: 1. Observation: what happened. 2. Expected: what you thought would happen instead. 3. Nearest reference: the baseline, sibling case, prior run, known-good path, or control. 4. Best explanation: the most plausible mechanism right now. 5. Falsifier: one observation that would seriously weaken that explanation. 6. Decision impact: what changes, or why nothing changes. 7. Baseline disposition: whether the nearest valid baseline remains active or has been superseded, and by what evidence. 8. Falsification scope: the exact hypothesis or changed delta rejected, plus the parent method or unchanged components that remain live. ## Apply These Rules - Separate observation from interpretation. - Compare against the nearest useful reference, not an abstract ideal. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/sensemaking@sha256:fd261e7fb415ce23The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.9b3de7c, 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_k474xjcwwsskn7fk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Mar 20, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026, about one every 92 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260921.9b3de7c latest | 2026-09-21 | 9b3de7c | 6,271 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.0e01ec7 | 2026-07-16 | 0e01ec7 | 3,950 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260320.999ac68 | 2026-03-20 | 999ac68 | 3,578 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 (6271 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
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k474xjcwwsskn7fk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/sensemaking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fd261e7fb415ce23773cac1ebd2049d66585bd4828c461f27777710bb9a8e857
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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.