doubt-driven-development SKILL.md skillA

doubt-driven-development from mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter/doubt-driven-development@git:20260707.f0ac903

Pins git:20260707.f0ac903 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter
Path
skills/doubt-driven-development/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260707.f0ac903, committed Jul 7, 2026
First version recorded
May 26, 2026
Size
16,306 bytes
Repository stars
50
License
MIT

Use when correctness matters more than speed: about to commit non-trivial code, make an architectural call under uncertainty, work in unfamiliar code, or assert what the compiler cannot check (''this is safe'', ''thread-safe'', ''this scales'', ''matches the spec''). Strongest on high-stakes surfaces (production deploys, security-sensitive logic, data migrations, irreversible operations) and when the user asks to sanity-check, red-team, double-check, or get a second opinion on a decision.

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

# Doubt-Driven Development

> Cherry-picked from [addyosmani/agent-skills](https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills) (MIT) 2026-05-26. Adapted to this substrate.

## Overview

A confident answer is not a correct one. Long sessions accumulate context that quietly turns assumptions into "facts" without anyone noticing. Doubt-driven development is the discipline of materializing a fresh-context reviewer — biased to **disprove**, not approve — before any non-trivial output stands.

This is not a post-PR review. Post-PR review is a verdict on a finished artifact. This is an in-flight posture: non-trivial decisions get cross-examined while course-correction is still cheap.

## When to Use

A decision is **non-trivial** when at least one of these is true:

- It introduces or modifies branching logic
- It crosses a module or service boundary
- It asserts a property the type system or compiler cannot verify (thread safety, idempotence, ordering, invariants)
- Its correctness depends on context the future reader cannot see
- Its blast radius is irreversible (production deploy, data migration, public API change)

Apply the skill when:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter/doubt-driven-development@sha256:16eecbed1ff1ef27

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260707.f0ac903, 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 3 versions of this file, between May 26, 2026 and Jul 7, 2026, about one every 21 days.

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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 (16306 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

mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter · 50 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kvjd2mpnq5ppvmu5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter/doubt-driven-development
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/16eecbed1ff1ef271aa8e8d3bc449280aebfa5819bc857350881fe04e4e0aab5

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