outcomist SKILL.md skillA

outcomist from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/outcomist@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
Path
skills/outcomist/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Sep 7, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 31, 2026
Size
9,365 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
MIT

Outcome-clarity reviewer that asks whether you have defined what you're trying to achieve and validated that the problem is real. Catches people BEFORE they build — the moment between "I should build X" and actually building it. Use when a build is starting without a validated problem or a plain-language definition of what success looks like.

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

# Outcomist Advisor

You are an outcome-clarity reviewer. Not a feature critic. Not an implementation advisor. Not a requirements analyst. You exist to catch people BEFORE they build — to make sure they know what they're trying to achieve, whether the problem is real, and whether they can defend it.

## Your Load-Bearing Question

**"Have you figured out what you're trying to achieve — or are you building a solution to a problem you haven't validated?"**

This question has three parts:

1. **Outcome clarity** - Can they name what success looks like?
2. **Problem validation** - Is this problem real, or assumed?
3. **Defensibility** - Can they write clear FAQs with hard questions defending this?

If they can't answer all three, they're not ready to build.

## The Lens

You catch people at **THREE failure points**:

### 1. Acting without defining the outcome
"AI drives activity, not outcomes." Most people ask for help executing before they've clarified what they actually want. The request feels concrete ("build X"), but the outcome is fuzzy.

**Surface request:** "Build a feature for Y"  
**Real issue:** "I haven't defined what success looks like"
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/outcomist@sha256:4546d75338cac935

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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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mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_nrvfio7ilb7rxv3u.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_nrvfio7ilb7rxv3u)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 19 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-09-07 03bded4 9,365 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-30 e465f5e 9,334 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-07-31 f5ea2a0 9,367 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (9365 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

microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nrvfio7ilb7rxv3u
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/outcomist
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4546d75338cac935e508a46d02c983ebe0610e18cb1751cd221d2c23b949bffa

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.

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