agent-startup-and-context-ingestion skillA
agent-startup-and-context-ingestion is agent-read markdown (skill) from mvschwarz/openrig: Use when designing or auditing how an agent becomes useful after launch — AGENTS.md overlays, role files, skills, rig specs, workflow specs, startup checklists, refocus messages, "rig context" surface. Covers the 4 failure modes that make startup context fail (old rig spec misses current operating mode; current agents never told about new guidance; startup file as dumping ground; orchestrator transmits implementation without preserving product intent)..
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
# Agent Startup and Context Ingestion How an agent becomes useful after launch: **AGENTS.md overlays, role files, skills, rig specs, workflow specs, startup checklists, refocus messages**, and the current `rig context` retrieval and profile surface. It is the current concrete startup path inside the broader context-engineering-and-retrieval primitive. Startup gets a seat into the right initial shape; context engineering is the larger question of how a seat gets the right context for the work it is doing right now. **Most coordination failures are not tool failures; they are context failures.** Agents need to know their role, operating mode, coordination convention, boundaries, and current product intent. If startup context is scattered or stale, agents execute the wrong thing very efficiently. ## Use this when - Authoring a new agent's startup files (role / culture / startup-context) - Refreshing a seat that's been running on stale guidance - Auditing whether agents got the current operating mode (not just what's in old files) - Designing the orchestrator → next-agent context-transmission shape - Building a startup map for OpenRig-building rigs ## Don't use this when …
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How to install
mdr add mvschwarz/openrig/agent-startup-and-context-ingestion@git:20260907.9006fc5mdr add mvschwarz/openrig/agent-startup-and-context-ingestion@sha256:ed9a3fba75d9c53dPin 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_n57lg7fm552rp5wc)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260907.9006fc5 latest | 2026-09-07 | 9006fc5 | 7,166 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.ac21bc2 | 2026-09-06 | ac21bc2 | 7,014 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260830.44ea56a | 2026-08-30 | 44ea56a | 6,036 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.622323d | 2026-08-27 | 622323d | 6,049 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 (7166 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
mvschwarz/openrig · 362 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n57lg7fm552rp5wc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mvschwarz/openrig/agent-startup-and-context-ingestion GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ed9a3fba75d9c53d44d3fb2a9b4703a1bdb5d13e78e4e34f18c2887c23c9d248
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