tick SKILL.md skillA
tick from bdambrosio/cognitive_workbench is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bdambrosio/cognitive_workbench/tick@git:20260429.1d90fd9Pins git:20260429.1d90fd9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bdambrosio/cognitive_workbench
- Path
src/sensors/tick/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260429.1d90fd9, committed Apr 29, 2026
- Size
- 698 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Time heartbeat for chat-mode autonomy — fires every schedule period to trigger concern cadence checks.
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
Stateless time sensor. On each scheduled tick it publishes a `{kind: 'tick'}`
marker to the agent's `sense_data` channel. The chat loop dispatches on the
marker, runs `_check_and_fire_concerns` against the current wall clock, and
autonomously executes any concern instructions whose cadence has elapsed.
This is the trigger source for chat-mode Phase C autonomy. Wall clock is the
single source of truth — the sensor does not advance any internal clock; it
just removes the user-turn dependency from cadence checks.Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bdambrosio/cognitive_workbench/tick@sha256:1a0d1bfbaeabcc2dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260429.1d90fd9, 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_l7cytqky6f7h5qm5)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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Source
bdambrosio/cognitive_workbench · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l7cytqky6f7h5qm5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bdambrosio/cognitive_workbench/tick GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1a0d1bfbaeabcc2d517c0254ea30b70f8464e38b100d2a7f5135fc46d20d74ca
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.