map-then-territory SKILL.md skillA
map-then-territory from pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/map-then-territory@git:20260717.43fbdbbPins git:20260717.43fbdbb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os
- Path
research-skills-hub/open-paper-skills/map-then-territory/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260717.43fbdbb, committed Jul 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 6,003 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Map scattered ideas into a human-approved DAG of verifiable states, then drive fresh agents through it edge by edge. Use when the user has a destination or idea fragments but lacks the domain knowledge to identify or sequence the route; when revising a map bundle; when compiling approved edges into launch prompts; or when recording execution evidence, deviations, and human verification.
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
# Map Then Territory Turn human intent into a map before changing the territory. The human owns the intent, values, directional choices, and final verification. The agent surveys the unfamiliar domain, preserves the human's idea fragments, proposes the missing points and lines, and executes approved lines. A point is ready only when the human can verify it without understanding the implementation. ## Core model - **Idea fragment** — the human's original input, preserved verbatim until the map records its disposition. - **Waypoint** — a verifiable state of the world, phrased as what is true rather than work to perform. A **directional** waypoint can redraw the route and requires an informed human choice before execution; an **executive** waypoint allows any implementation that passes its human-runnable acceptance check. - **Edge** — one clean agent session of action, with transition logic explaining why it moves the territory from one waypoint to another. - **Map** — the human-approved Markdown and Mermaid DAG; its `index.md` is the single source of route state. - **Territory** — the repository, documents, or environment changed by agents …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/map-then-territory@sha256:f2145548db3cc976The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260717.43fbdbb, 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_pns6ygu4kjatbahf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Jul 17, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20260717.43fbdbb latest | 2026-07-17 | 43fbdbb | 6,003 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.3be8260 | 2026-07-16 | 3be8260 | 7,225 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.c88e976 | 2026-07-16 | c88e976 | 7,099 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6003 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
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Source
pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pns6ygu4kjatbahf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/map-then-territory GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f2145548db3cc9767eebc7e0e3fb397a3d49485049c60e6aaafee184b3fc76e9
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