own-guardrails-bind-me SKILL.md skillA

own-guardrails-bind-me from kalabint/llm-tooling is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/own-guardrails-bind-me@git:20260907.47ea7d2

Pins git:20260907.47ea7d2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
kalabint/llm-tooling
Path
skills/own-guardrails-bind-me/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260907.47ea7d2, committed Sep 7, 2026
Size
648 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
AGPL-3.0

A constraint you write into a brief for a subagent or a future self binds you first; authoring a frame can make it invisible to you.

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

# Your own guardrails bind you

When you set a rule for a delegated task, you are the first party subject to it. The act of writing the frame tends to exempt it from your own scrutiny.

**Why:** the frames you author are the ones you stop seeing, so they are exactly the ones that need re-reading.

**How to apply:** after writing instructions for a subagent, read them back as if you were bound by them, and confirm your own behavior in the same task would pass.

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/own-guardrails-bind-me@sha256:393cfcb1255317d3

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.47ea7d2, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ox2sub64cw6mixj3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ox2sub64cw6mixj3)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 7, 2026.

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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 (648 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

kalabint/llm-tooling · 6 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ox2sub64cw6mixj3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalabint/llm-tooling/own-guardrails-bind-me
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/393cfcb1255317d350010e42cfcf5aadc7c0863c7ce18272b743521428133435

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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