skill-pressure-test SKILL.md skillA
skill-pressure-test from nyldn/claude-octopus is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-pressure-test@git:20260906.89d2d35Pins git:20260906.89d2d35 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nyldn/claude-octopus
- Path
.claude/skills/skill-pressure-test/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260906.89d2d35, committed Sep 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 2, 2026
- Size
- 5,238 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,409
- License
- MIT
Interrogate a plan, decision, or design one question at a time until it holds — use to stress-test your own thinking before committing to it.
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
# Pressure Test Interview the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or design until you both reach a shared understanding of it. Walk each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time. This is not brainstorming. `skill-thought-partner` opens a space up and looks for what might be there; this closes one down and looks for what is wrong with it. Use this when there is already a position on the table and the risk is that it is wrong in a way nobody has said out loud. Adapted from the `grilling` skill in [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) (MIT). ## When To Use - The user has a plan, spec, or design and wants it attacked before they commit. - A decision keeps getting deferred because its dependencies are tangled. - Scope feels slippery and nobody can say precisely what is in it. - Before a large or hard-to-reverse change, where being wrong is expensive. ## When Not To Use - To generate options. That is `skill-decision-support`. - To explore an open space with no position yet. That is `skill-thought-partner`. - When the user wants the work done, not examined. Say so and stop. …
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How to install
mdr add nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-pressure-test@sha256:2e10f5e4eee8db75The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260906.89d2d35, 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_ockgm7r566c6gpj4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260906.89d2d35 latest | 2026-09-06 | 89d2d35 | 5,238 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.14437ae | 2026-08-13 | 14437ae | 4,708 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.542f71c | 2026-08-02 | 542f71c | 4,677 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5238 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
nyldn/claude-octopus · 4,409 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ockgm7r566c6gpj4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-pressure-test GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2e10f5e4eee8db75188c25f548be7526ccd78a9cd1de60eed4d64289bc27c32d
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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