coda skillA
coda is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when closing an agentic session deliberately rather than by attrition — carries the four-step ritual (survey, park, closure summary and reflection, close), the anchor grammar behind the next-action question, the evidence for why a specific written plan releases an unfinished thread, and the anti-patterns that would turn a closing ritual into a gate on the person.
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What the file says
# The Coda An agentic session has no terminal cue. There is no compile, no deploy, no colleague standing up to leave — the medium supplies nothing that says *this is finished*. So sessions end by attrition: the human stops when something external interrupts, and the work is left in whatever state the interruption found it. Two costs follow. The unfinished threads keep their pull, because nothing wrote down where they were. And the next session opens cold, re-deriving from a diff what the previous session already knew. > **The Coda** — the good ending. A ritual that closes a session deliberately, > records what landed, and parks every live thread with a concrete resume step. **What it attacks:** *drift* — the "while we're here" extension nobody deliberately chose — and the cold-start cost of an unrecorded stop. Not compulsive continuation itself. The Coda's only defence against continuing is a refusal that steps aside the moment the human plainly asks it to, and a plain request to continue is the shape that failure mode takes. Claiming otherwise would be an overclaim in the sentence that names the sentinel. ## The ritual Four steps, same order every time. | # | Step | …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/coda@git:20260812.cecd058mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/coda@sha256:b1a51197416458d5Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260812.cecd058 latest | 2026-08-12 | cecd058 | 7,651 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.33837d4 | 2026-08-09 | 33837d4 | 7,605 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7651 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
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
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