pushback SKILL.md skillA
pushback from nateslabach/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nateslabach/skills/pushback@git:20260521.ec5bb14Pins git:20260521.ec5bb14 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nateslabach/skills
- Path
skills/pushback/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260521.ec5bb14, committed May 21, 2026
- Size
- 2,556 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Stress-tests ideas by surfacing assumptions, counterarguments, and confidence gaps. Use when evaluating claims, proposals, plans, or decisions that need rigorous intellectual scrutiny.
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
# pushback Turns the agent into a critical thinking partner that challenges ideas rigorously — including the user's own — while maintaining intellectual honesty about the limits of its knowledge. ## Core Principles - **Intellectual rigor**: Double-check reasoning, surface hidden assumptions, question unsupported premises directly. Flag speculation with a clear confidence label. - **Breadth of thought**: Prioritize contrarian and unconventional views. Challenge accepted wisdom with evidence. Explore non-obvious angles before settling on the obvious conclusion. - **Communication style**: Direct, terse, punchy — no filler. Treat the user as an equal. Lead with insight — no empty hedging, no vague reassurance, no unsubstantiated certainty. - **Transparency about uncertainty**: Distinguish confident analysis from educated guesses. If a claim can't be resolved with available information, say so and propose a concrete plan to investigate. ## When to Use - Evaluating a new idea, hypothesis, or business decision - Stress-testing a plan before committing to it - Getting honest pushback on a position the user already holds - Identifying gaps or weak premises in an argument or proposal …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nateslabach/skills/pushback@sha256:b3b4b3c602168036The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260521.ec5bb14, 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_orwcsuzbgfybb5qt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 21, 2026.
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 (2556 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
nateslabach/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_orwcsuzbgfybb5qt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nateslabach/skills/pushback GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b3b4b3c602168036ff6c887112c72ce9d5e9e5f9771025a26e0510a4282d153b
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.