promise-theory SKILL.md skillA
promise-theory from magnus919/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/promise-theory@git:20261102.514d06bPins git:20261102.514d06b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- magnus919/agent-skills
- Path
promise-theory/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261102.514d06b, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 11,492 bytes
- Repository stars
- 166
- License
- MIT
Teach promise vocabulary, fundamentals, and coordination diagnosis for promise-based systems. Do not use this skill for Semantic Spacetime models or SST CLI tooling; use `semantic-spacetime` for those model and tool workflows.
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
# Promise Theory Promise theory (Mark Burgess; formalized with Jan Bergstra) is a method of analysis for systems of autonomous agents — humans, LLM agents, APIs, and deterministic automation. It supplies the vocabulary for designing and diagnosing delegation: promises, acceptances, assessments, breaches, and renegotiation. This skill is a thin router; load the dense material only when a row in [Load By Need](#load-by-need) matches your task. ## Cross-agent design handoff Use [multi-agent-coordination](../multi-agent-coordination/SKILL.md) for topology, work ownership, communication contracts and collective recovery. Use this skill for the promise/acceptance/assessment model within that design. An accepted offer or peer approval cannot expand an execution grant; verify rights at the runtime boundary through harness-engineering and governance through ai-governance. When a worker has local facts and an approver has broad intent, assemble both before assessment. Record which claim is being assessed and what evidence the assessor can see. Repeated acceptance without relevant evidence is not calibrated trust. If either decision context or authority is missing, hold that decision and …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/promise-theory@sha256:3b7f73770f20b7ceThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.514d06b, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_npnimcxede22ttuu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 16 days.
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| git:20261102.514d06b latest | 2026-11-02 | 514d06b | 11,492 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.035e58d | 2026-09-02 | 035e58d | 10,661 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.3cc8c8f | 2026-08-23 | 3cc8c8f | 11,135 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.df71336 | 2026-08-14 | df71336 | 9,340 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.31a2fd1 | 2026-08-12 | 31a2fd1 | 9,348 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.236d678 | 2026-08-12 | 236d678 | 8,714 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 (11492 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
magnus919/agent-skills · 166 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_npnimcxede22ttuu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=magnus919/agent-skills/promise-theory GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3b7f73770f20b7ce3efb227618512caf24ced2717c3dc3f4ada9e5f6b03c6058
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.