ockham SKILL.md skillA
ockham from elmayii/cdev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add elmayii/cdev/ockham@git:20260815.5e4c63aPins git:20260815.5e4c63a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- elmayii/cdev
- Path
skills/ockham/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260815.5e4c63a, committed Aug 15, 2026
- Size
- 4,121 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
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.
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
# 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 …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add elmayii/cdev/ockham@sha256:408badd2d2adcda1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260815.5e4c63a, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 15, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- 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 · 9 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
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.