throughline SKILL.md skillA
throughline from jovesun-lab/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jovesun-lab/whetstone/throughline@git:20261014.9e059cbPins git:20261014.9e059cb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jovesun-lab/whetstone
- Path
handoff-skill/throughline/skills/throughline/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261014.9e059cb, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 7, 2026
- Size
- 14,276 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Throughline keeps the thread of work intact on work that's big enough to drift or that outlives one sitting. Two linked habits: (1) TASK TRACK — an emoji-tagged task list with exactly one ⭐️ MAIN goal anchor, so you can see at a glance whether you're still solving the main thing or have drifted; (2) HANDOFF — compact a session into a plain-markdown handoff doc the next agent (any agent) can pick up cleanly. Reach for it when: a long or many-step task is at real risk of losing the thread, you…
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
# Throughline *Keep the thread — Task Track within a session, Handoff across them.* > **For any AI agent reading this file.** The frontmatter uses Claude's skill format; the > body is plain markdown. It works the same for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Cursor, Cline, Aider, > or a local model — paste the body in as a prompt if your platform has no skill system. > Assume **nothing** about your host's capabilities; everything here degrades gracefully > (see "Capability-agnostic by design" below). ## What this is Long or multi-agent work fails in two predictable ways, and this skill is two habits that each kill one of them: - **Within a session, reasoning drifts off the goal.** You solve a small problem, which surfaces another, which pulls you somewhere adjacent to what you started on. Every step is locally reasonable; together they bend the trajectory. **Task Track** makes that drift *visible* by keeping one ⭐️ MAIN goal anchor in front of you. - **Across sessions, the thread is dropped.** A fresh run (or a different agent) starts cold, re-derives what was already known, or trusts a stale summary. **Handoff** carries the thread …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jovesun-lab/whetstone/throughline@sha256:87c80fcf49740314The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.9e059cb, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jun 7, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 43 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261014.9e059cb latest | 2026-10-14 | 9e059cb | 14,276 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.64de4c4 | 2026-09-11 | 64de4c4 | 13,219 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.a3d59c6 | 2026-08-20 | a3d59c6 | 12,673 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260607.883dd65 | 2026-06-07 | 883dd65 | 9,456 B | A | view |
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 (14276 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
jovesun-lab/whetstone · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lfzewb6rijnkipm2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jovesun-lab/whetstone/throughline GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/87c80fcf497403148c79cfa7f65f5d046dcef64cdf4e56c45828365830e2929a
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.