run-provenance SKILL.md skillA
run-provenance from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/run-provenance@git:20261028.04ae270Pins git:20261028.04ae270 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
- Path
skills/run-provenance/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261028.04ae270, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 21, 2026
- Size
- 14,896 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Decide how much provenance a computational run owes, record it before the first expensive step, and write a README that says how to remake the output. Use when launching a run, publishing an artifact another run will consume, freezing a checkout for a queued job, or deciding whether a branch, worktree, or recovery copy can be deleted.
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
# Run Provenance Provenance exists so a later reader can tell what produced an artifact and remake it. Everything below scales with what the artifact is for: a probe nobody will reuse owes very little, and a parent that other runs consume owes all of it. ## Choose The Tier Before You Launch Use three tiers so iteration stays fast without weakening durable evidence. 1. **Developer checks.** Compile/import checks, config validation, dry runs, and disposable local mechanics probes may use uncommitted code and need no provenance artifact. A read-only diagnostic that consumes immutable inputs and writes nothing anything else will consume is this tier by default; it needs no deliberation about which tier applies. Write this tier's files into the expiring scratch directory that `dir=$(agent-scratch <slug>)` creates, `$AGENT_SCRATCH_BASE/<project>/agent_scratch/<slug>`, where a nightly sweep deletes any entry untouched for 14 days. Do not put it in the repository or beside durable outputs, where it outlives its purpose and a later reader cannot tell it from evidence. Anything that turns out to be …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/run-provenance@sha256:b98b906bc5e8237dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.04ae270, 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_q53cxsckxfzxcm5r)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 21, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261028.04ae270 latest | 2026-10-28 | 04ae270 | 14,896 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.67cee2d | 2026-10-28 | 67cee2d | 14,373 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.56ffa2a | 2026-10-27 | 56ffa2a | 10,613 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.44d7fbc | 2026-10-04 | 44d7fbc | 10,012 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260928.6696f72 | 2026-09-28 | 6696f72 | 9,514 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260928.0f8e9a0 | 2026-09-28 | 0f8e9a0 | 9,018 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.9b3de7c | 2026-09-21 | 9b3de7c | 7,554 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 (14896 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
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q53cxsckxfzxcm5r GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/run-provenance GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b98b906bc5e8237d8ee5e54e1f05ab8a5185e0979daa88d70a08a43809d2819e
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