grounded-vault SKILL.md skillA
grounded-vault from wshobson/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wshobson/agents/grounded-vault@git:20260901.a30778fPins git:20260901.a30778f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- Path
plugins/documentation-standards/skills/grounded-vault/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260901.a30778f, committed Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 5,445 bytes
- Repository stars
- 42,320
- License
- MIT
Use when maintaining a durable Markdown knowledge store that agents compile from sources, when every number or quote in a wiki page must trace back to an immutable source, or when compiled pages need cheap drift detection against the code they describe. Teaches the raw/wiki/archive layout, per-claim provenance links, and git fingerprints for zero-token staleness 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
# Grounded Vault A grounded vault is a three-layer Markdown store in which every compiled claim can be traced back to an immutable source and every page can be checked for staleness with one `git diff`. It needs a git repository and nothing else. The convention comes from the `llm-wiki-loop` project, which is a reference implementation rather than a dependency; this skill teaches the pattern so it works with plain files and whatever agent is in the session. ## When to Use - An agent compiles notes, papers, transcripts, logs, or code into wiki pages that later sessions rely on. - A page cites numbers, dates, or quotes, and a reader must be able to verify each one against its source. - Pages describe code, and rereading the codebase every session to check whether they still hold is too expensive. - Knowledge must be corrected without losing history: superseded pages are archived, never deleted. Session state, task queues, and conversation continuity are a different problem; use the context-management or conductor plugins for those. This skill is about provenance and drift on a durable knowledge store. ## The three layers | Layer | Contents | Who writes it | Rule | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/grounded-vault@sha256:8c646c8dd0780299The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.a30778f, 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_lcub4ckqrm3meaj7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 1, 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 (5445 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
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lcub4ckqrm3meaj7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wshobson/agents/grounded-vault GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c646c8dd078029950f9d6292a1b79a8c97cb290c02c496d869c80c8089ae80b
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.