model-sovereignty SKILL.md skillA
model-sovereignty from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/model-sovereignty@git:20260408.1ba2441Pins git:20260408.1ba2441 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
- Path
ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/model-sovereignty/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260408.1ba2441, committed Apr 8, 2026
- Size
- 4,215 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
This skill should be used when the user asks about "local models", "custom models", "fine-tuning", "self-hosting models", "model selection", "which model should I use", "data privacy and models", "LoRA", "RAG vs fine-tuning", "Ollama", "vLLM", or wants guidance on whether to build, host, or customise their own AI models.
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
# Model Sovereignty Model sovereignty is the practice of making deliberate decisions about which models to use, where they run, and whether to create custom models. It extends the framework's Theme #2 (Agency and Sovereignty) into the model layer. This skill guides practitioners through the decision framework from cross-cutting Theme #17 and Appendix P of the framework. ## The Decision Hierarchy Exhaust simpler approaches before escalating complexity. Each step adds maintenance burden. 1. **Prompting + context engineering** — the default. Most teams underestimate how far this carries them. Exhaust it first. 2. **RAG** — when the limitation is knowledge (volatile, large, or frequently changing information). 3. **Fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA)** — when the limitation is behaviour (consistent domain-specific patterns at scale). 4. **Distillation** — when the limitation is size or speed (edge deployment, latency-sensitive applications). 5. **Local hosting** — when the limitation is privacy, cost at scale, or independence from vendor defaults. ## The Decision Framework Walk through these questions in order. Stop at the first "yes." …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/model-sovereignty@sha256:b67f8298c939cf5fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260408.1ba2441, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 8, 2026.
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Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 121 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ki636xwvoij5texz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/model-sovereignty GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b67f8298c939cf5f292abc7cd3793fe23673210632ea5a5b6b0ed47105dafb83
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