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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

Latest version
mdr add mvschwarz/openrig/agent-startup-and-context-ingestion@git:20260907.9006fc5
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mdr add mvschwarz/openrig/agent-startup-and-context-ingestion@sha256:ed9a3fba75d9c53d

Pin 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.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • 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

GitHub

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

Your agent 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.

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