tradeoff-articulation SKILL.md skillA
tradeoff-articulation from rlaope/ultraprompt is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rlaope/ultraprompt/tradeoff-articulation@git:20260915.a5ced99Pins git:20260915.a5ced99 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rlaope/ultraprompt
- Path
skills/tradeoff-articulation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260915.a5ced99, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 10,880 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Invoke when a design decision has multiple viable implementations and the choice affects performance, memory, complexity, or blast radius — forces enumerating real alternatives, quantifying the axes that matter, and recording what would reverse the decision.
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
# Trade-off Articulation > Status: v0.1 baseline draft — derived from the case catalog and axis definitions; awaiting trace evidence from Fable 5.1 case runs. ## When to apply - Two or more implementations would each pass the tests, but they differ on latency, memory, throughput, operational complexity, or blast radius. - You are about to pick a data structure, storage layout, locking strategy, caching policy, consistency model, or protocol — categories where the "obvious" choice is often only obvious because alternatives were never named. - A reviewer, teammate, or future session will need to understand *why* this shape was chosen, not just *what* was chosen. - The decision is expensive to reverse (schema, wire format, public API, on-disk layout) or its cost scales with data/traffic growth. - You notice yourself justifying a design after writing it instead of before — that is the signal to stop and run this loop retroactively. - Do NOT apply when one option strictly dominates (better or equal on every axis you care about) or the decision is trivially reversible in one commit — name the dominant option in one sentence and move on. ## Core loop …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rlaope/ultraprompt/tradeoff-articulation@sha256:1f9bf3bcbbbf4e60The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.a5ced99, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 72 days.
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| git:20260915.a5ced99 latest | 2026-09-15 | a5ced99 | 10,880 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.c12b4fc | 2026-07-05 | c12b4fc | 10,878 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 (10880 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
rlaope/ultraprompt · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ntlxszcm5b37ydrc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rlaope/ultraprompt/tradeoff-articulation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1f9bf3bcbbbf4e6006c3126439e55fe27d0fe411232b5380d127d4e6e37d5426
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