checklist SKILL.md skillA
checklist from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
checklist/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 7,546 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: user says 'let's make sure we don't skip anything', 'we need a pre-flight', 'build me a checklist for X', 'we keep missing steps in our deployment / close / launch', 'Gawande / Pronovost / checklist manifesto'. Do NOT activate when: the task is simple and one-off with no recurrence; the user is asking for a to-do list or project plan (not a must-not-skip operational gate). More: deciqai.com/s/checklist.
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
# Checklist ## Overview A **checklist** is a short written list of must-not-skip steps for a complex repeated operation. It externalizes working memory — which fails under load, ego, time pressure, and fatigue — so attention stays on the situation rather than step recall. Boeing 1935 → Pronovost ICU 2001 → WHO Surgical 2008: each produced 36-47% reductions in major adverse events at near-zero cost. Composes with [`metacognition`](../metacognition/SKILL.md), [`confirmation-bias`](../confirmation-bias/SKILL.md), [`cognitive-load-theory`](../cognitive-load-theory/SKILL.md), [`premortem`](../premortem/SKILL.md), [`inversion`](../inversion/SKILL.md). ## When to Use - High-stakes repeated operations (deployments, launches, M&A close, hiring decisions, financial close) - Multiple steps where skipping one costs far more than running the checklist - Multi-person operations where coordination must be consistent - New team members joining a critical workflow - Shipping or updating an AI agent / model version in production — evals, guardrails, spend caps, rollback: known steps that skilled teams skip under deadline …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist@sha256:bdec412afaa2fc5cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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_pmyo3hzqj3wniwjk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 7,546 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.e2c76a4 | 2026-08-16 | e2c76a4 | 7,546 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 7,417 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.a6bb105 | 2026-07-26 | a6bb105 | 7,417 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 7,200 B | A | view |
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 (7546 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pmyo3hzqj3wniwjk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/checklist GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bdec412afaa2fc5cbc60d79683427bb9ce39511379b564bc8ba3c1b6795e34c9
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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