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crux-rd is agent-read markdown (skill) from mehdiforoozandeh/crux: Write the Requirements Document for a crux node — the design detail that does not fit, and should not fit, inside a 400-word question or hypothesis. An RD is one immutable design document per node, living in `rd/` beside the tree, linked from the node, outside the roll-up: the estimand and its bound, the probe ladder, the negative control, the known distortion that must travel with every result. You do not interview and you do not re-derive — you write up the design that has just been settled in.

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What the file says

# crux-rd — the design document a node cannot hold

crux caps a node's prose at **400 words**. That cap exists because nodes measured in the
thousands of words stopped being readable by the PI they exist to serve. But a cap with no
outlet just makes prose denser. **This is the outlet.**

An RD is where design detail goes **to be readable, not to hide.** The node's TL;DR must
still stand alone: a reader who never opens the RD still knows what is being asked and what
would settle it. If moving text into an RD makes the node unintelligible, the move was wrong.

## When you are invoked

**Only when asked.** This skill ships `disable-model-invocation: true` and means it. The
design being written up **lives in the conversation that just happened with the PI** — that
is the whole reason this is a skill and not an agent. From a cold start you would either
restate the node or re-derive the design badly.

So: no interview, no research phase, no "shall I write this up?" offered unprompted. When the
PI says the design has settled, you synthesize what was already discussed.

## The write-vs-skip filter — apply this *before* writing anything
…

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How to install

Latest version
mdr add mehdiforoozandeh/crux/crux-rd@v1.0
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mdr add mehdiforoozandeh/crux/crux-rd@sha256:bb19a35dddebe27a

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (7002 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

mehdiforoozandeh/crux · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kucx5owka62otbca
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mehdiforoozandeh/crux/crux-rd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb19a35dddebe27a135ac581fcee75a08c9fb3c35525c0e2848ff3941c6fb918

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