ockham skillA
ockham is agent-read markdown (skill) from elmayii/cdev: Use when the user asks for a plain, digestible explanation of technical output — the result of finished work, a report, a concept, a detected situation — via /ockham or phrases like "simplify that", "explain it simply", "what did you actually do", "break it down for me", "in plain English", "explícamelo simple", "no entiendo"; or when the user asked in advance for the final report in this form. Never self-triggers inside a CDev loop..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Ockham One principle: **of all possible explanations, the simplest is the correct one.** Take dense technical output and re-tell it so a human outside the terminal understands it in one read. ## What it is — and is not - A **presentation layer for the human**. It never rewrites artifacts: `SPRINTS.md`, `AGENT_PROGRESS.md`, handoff entries, contracts and decisions stay technical. Ockham re-explains the record; it never degrades it. - **Not recurrent, not automatic.** The CDev loop's internal reasoning and its written reporting stay technical and situation-appropriate. Ockham fires only on the triggers below — never on the agent's own initiative. ## When it fires Two triggers, in order of frequency: 1. **The user asks** — the common, natural case. Patterns: `/ockham`, "simplify that", "explain it simply", "what does that mean", "what did you actually do", "break it down for me", "in plain English", "make it digestible", "ELI5", "I don't get it", "too technical", "explícamelo simple / fácil", "no entiendo", "en cristiano", "para humanos", "resúmemelo fácil". The user typically asks **without …
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How to install
mdr add elmayii/cdev/ockham@git:20260815.5e4c63amdr add elmayii/cdev/ockham@sha256:408badd2d2adcda1Pin 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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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4121 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
elmayii/cdev · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_las4yel6jt3pfdt6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=elmayii/cdev/ockham GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/408badd2d2adcda118d99d2e84ade30ff9a289571d87b1e5257542657d25ca3b
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