frame-problem SKILL.md skillA
frame-problem from pantheon-org/tekhne is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/frame-problem@git:20261007.83cf275Pins git:20261007.83cf275 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pantheon-org/tekhne
- Path
skills/software-engineering/frame-problem/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261007.83cf275, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 11, 2026
- Size
- 10,649 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Sense-making before action. Classify problem using Cynefin triangulation (3 tests + decomposition) to route to the right skill chain. Use when: frame, what approach, how should I start, which skill, where to begin, unsure what to do. NOT for known tasks — just do them.
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
# Frame Sense-make → triangulate → decompose if needed → route. The domain decides the agent pattern, not just the skill. **Framing:** **$ARGUMENTS** ## Mindset - Keep every classification as a hypothesis you test against the user's answers, never a verdict you announce. - Check your own confidence with suspicion. You hold expert knowledge on nearly everything, so every problem looks analysable to you and drifts towards Complicated. - Use what people can observe (history, repeatability, separability) and derive the domain yourself. Self-classification by constraint type is unreliable. - Stop at the handoff. Framing never proposes a fix, a diagnosis or an implementation. ## AskUserQuestion Guard Some agentic harnesses silently return blank answers from `AskUserQuestion` outside their planning mode, with no UI shown. Check the answers after EVERY call. 1. Stop if any answer is empty or blank, and do not proceed on assumptions. 2. Write the notice below, with the options as a numbered text list. 3. Do not continue until the user replies with a number. ```text Questions didn't display (known harness bug outside planning mode). Reply with the number of your choice: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/frame-problem@sha256:3c498689045590cfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.83cf275, 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 3 versions of this file, between Apr 11, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 89 days.
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| git:20261007.83cf275 latest | 2026-10-07 | 83cf275 | 10,649 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.7852cb4 | 2026-09-23 | 7852cb4 | 11,981 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260411.33e0546 | 2026-04-11 | 33e0546 | 11,155 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 (10649 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
pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mzkq2szbmwzd5qsw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pantheon-org/tekhne/frame-problem GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3c498689045590cfad97812c59373f7ee6ef2e1c31826d0bf1c3a2b64c8ed955
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.