state-probing SKILL.md skillA
state-probing from rlaope/ultraprompt is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rlaope/ultraprompt/state-probing@git:20260915.a5ced99Pins git:20260915.a5ced99 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rlaope/ultraprompt
- Path
skills/state-probing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260915.a5ced99, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 8,084 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Invoke before acting on any assumption about the runtime or environment — versions, running processes, file/disk reality, git state, network reachability. Grounds claims about the world in a cheap probe instead of a guess, and re-probes when state may have gone stale.
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
# State Probing
> Status: v0.1 baseline draft — derived from the case catalog and axis definitions; awaiting trace evidence from Fable 5.1 case runs.
## When to apply
- You are about to run a command, edit a file, or report a result whose correctness depends on the state of
the environment (which version is installed, whether a process is up, what branch you are on).
- A step failed in a way that only makes sense if reality differs from your assumption ("but I installed it").
- You resumed a session, a build ran, or time passed — any earlier probe result may now be stale.
- You are inferring environment state from source, config, or memory instead of from the live system.
- You are about to claim something *is* true of the world ("the server is running", "the file exists",
"we're on main") rather than something you *did*.
- The plan's next action is destructive or expensive and assumes a precondition you have not confirmed.
## Core loop
1. **Name the assumption as a checkable proposition.**
Turn the vague belief into one testable claim about the world: "node is v20", "port 5173 is listening",
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rlaope/ultraprompt/state-probing@sha256:757317035884b2fcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.a5ced99, 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_pxsysax2v7wud57b)
2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 20, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 57 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260915.a5ced99 latest | 2026-09-15 | a5ced99 | 8,084 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260720.5724cb8 | 2026-07-20 | 5724cb8 | 8,082 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 (8084 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
rlaope/ultraprompt · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pxsysax2v7wud57b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rlaope/ultraprompt/state-probing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/757317035884b2fcbddc7fdd626ee213ee36e980e6dbf2cc453a06e502891b89
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.