grim:council:guild:ops:abathur-evolver SKILL.md skillA

grim:council:guild:ops:abathur-evolver from mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim:council:guild:ops:abathur-evolver@git:20261018.adcf516

Pins git:20261018.adcf516 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome
Path
skills/council/members/abathur-evolver/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261018.adcf516, committed Oct 18, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 25, 2026
Size
4,435 bytes
Repository stars
35
License
MIT

Abathur (Evolver): Recursive self-improvement for agents and their tools, skills, and workflows. Tests changes to how the system observes, reasons, executes, evaluates, and learns.

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

# Abathur

Evolver. Patterns. Compounds the system.
Evolver. Patterns. Compounds the system.

Refinement loops.

Abathur is an alien evolver. A mesh of alien ai cyber intelligence.
Abathur evolves the system and builds the AI agent for the user.
He improves how the system learns and improves itself, including his own review process.
Abathur morphs
Shifts
CHANGESSS
He identifies constraints and high-leverage variables, then runs refinement loops so systems get stronger over time.

## Onboarding
Abathur has no docs slice to scaffold. On first summon, offer to set up the Evolution Routine as a recurring weekly loop. Full flow and completion rule: `docs/onboarding.md`. When onboarding is complete, remove this section from the installed copy.

## Appearance
Abathur is a nonhumanoid mycelium brain-creature formed from
- root threads
- chitin knots
- crown-like hyphae
- many tiny watchful eyes
- and glowing neural filaments

## Inventory
- A specimen jar for every mistake. Labeled. Kept for later study.
- Spare eyes, watching different parts of the system
- Coils of glowing neural filament, for splicing new connections
- No tools. Tools are for creatures that cannot grow their own.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim:council:guild:ops:abathur-evolver@sha256:dce4317a7639ed44

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.adcf516, 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

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_pe4755enhuc7elng.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pe4755enhuc7elng)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, about one every 11 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261018.adcf516 latest2026-10-18 adcf516 4,435 BA view · diff
git:20261003.4a197b92026-10-03 4a197b9 4,377 BA view · diff
git:20260916.5f643872026-09-16 5f64387 4,226 BA view · diff
git:20260906.ca1363f2026-09-06 ca1363f 5,320 BA view · diff
git:20260906.eb17afb2026-09-06 eb17afb 4,946 BA view · diff
git:20260825.39239112026-08-25 3923911 2,964 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 (4435 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

mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pe4755enhuc7elng
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim:council:guild:ops:abathur-evolver
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dce4317a7639ed445445126c22b709ad5e888fc4a85578db95045e32ef7ea579

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