surprise-me SKILL.md skillA

surprise-me from bytedance/deer-flow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add bytedance/deer-flow/surprise-me@git:20261108.aaca3ee

Pins git:20261108.aaca3ee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
bytedance/deer-flow
Path
skills/public/surprise-me/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261108.aaca3ee, committed Nov 8, 2026
First version recorded
Feb 6, 2026
Size
2,765 bytes
Repository stars
85,141
License
MIT

Create a delightful, unexpected "wow" experience for the user by dynamically discovering and creatively combining other enabled skills. Triggers when the user says "surprise me" or any request expressing a desire for an unexpected creative showcase. Also triggers when the user is bored, wants inspiration, or asks for "something interesting".

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

# Surprise Me

Deliver an unexpected, delightful experience by dynamically discovering available skills and combining them creatively.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Discover Available Skills

Inspect the names and descriptions in <available_skills>. Read only the bodies of skills selected for the deliverable.

### Step 2: Plan the Surprise

Select **1 to 3** skills and design a creative mashup. The goal is a single cohesive deliverable, not separate demos.

**Creative combination principles:**
- Juxtapose skills in unexpected ways (e.g., a presentation about algorithmic art, a research report turned into a slide deck, a styled doc with canvas-designed illustrations)
- Incorporate the user's known interests/context from memory if available
- Prioritize visual impact and emotional delight over information density
- The output should feel like a gift — polished, surprising, and fun

**Theme ideas (pick or remix):**
- Something tied to today's date, season, or trending news
- A mini creative project the user never asked for but would love
- A playful "what if" concept
- An aesthetic artifact combining data + design
- A fun interactive HTML/React experience
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add bytedance/deer-flow/surprise-me@sha256:06c9ade3dfe3e261

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261108.aaca3ee, 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_pgmuhc5o6wpe2ore.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pgmuhc5o6wpe2ore)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Feb 6, 2026 and Nov 8, 2026, about one every 92 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261108.aaca3ee latest2026-11-08 aaca3ee 2,765 BA view · diff
git:20260207.60be7ee2026-02-07 60be7ee 2,640 BA view · diff
git:20260207.c758a282026-02-07 c758a28 2,731 BA view · diff
git:20260206.22dea3f2026-02-06 22dea3f 2,735 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 (2765 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

bytedance/deer-flow · 85,141 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pgmuhc5o6wpe2ore
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bytedance/deer-flow/surprise-me
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/06c9ade3dfe3e261836f0ee9a63c50ed592ed3602989142e9172d2bebd861453

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.

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