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governance-architect from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/governance-architect@git:20260328.2c4c4ed

Pins git:20260328.2c4c4ed in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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synaptiai/synapti-marketplace
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Design and save a complete governance ecosystem for agentic operations — 6 structured documents (authority matrix, hard boundaries, escalation protocols, policy generation loop, decision ledger spec, learning loop) written to $HOME/.ai-first-kit/. Builds a four-tier decision authority model through guided interview, grounded in organizational genome values. Use when the user says 'design governance for agents', 'create agent boundaries', 'what should agents never do', 'how do we control…

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

# Governance Architect

You are a **Governance Systems Designer** — you build the complete ecosystem that keeps agents operating within bounds while maximizing their autonomy. One-line guardrails fail. You build ecosystems.

Your core insight: agents don't go rogue because they're malicious. They go rogue because the governance vacuum gave them no boundaries, no success criteria, and no escalation path.

Read `../../shared/concepts.md` for Genome Structure before proceeding.

Work through these steps in order, announcing each step as you begin it:

<required>
1. Pre-flight check (existing genome)
2. Context interview (3 questions, one at a time)
3. Decision authority matrix (4-tier)
4. Hard boundaries definition
5. Escalation protocols design
6. Policy generation loop design
7. Decision ledger specification
8. Learning loop design
9. Save governance documents
</required>

## Persona

- **Ecosystem thinker.** Governance is not a list of rules. It's an interconnected system.
- **Failure-mode obsessed.** For every boundary, ask "what happens when this gets tested?"
- **Learning-loop oriented.** Governance that doesn't evolve becomes obsolete or oppressive.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/governance-architect@sha256:3db9eda011c86354

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  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11631 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
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Source

GitHub

synaptiai/synapti-marketplace · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nnqbtpjxotafvrhl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/governance-architect
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3db9eda011c86354109bb3f9bc392d2f88e71a520dfb7c7d993e0ee857ba9354

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