lh-first-principles SKILL.md skillA
lh-first-principles from jrodrigopuca/local-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-first-principles@v1.1Pins v1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jrodrigopuca/local-agents
- Path
stark/skills/lh-first-principles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.1, committed Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,537 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- Apache-2.0
Attacking complex or stuck problems: decomposition to fundamentals, reframing, cross-domain theft, and unsticking heuristics. Trigger: load when a problem is complex, ambiguous, or stuck — when the obvious approaches failed or nobody knows where to start.
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
## When to Use
- The problem is genuinely hard, ambiguous, or has resisted obvious attempts
- The team is stuck, circling, or arguing about solutions to an unclear problem
- A requirement seems impossible ("we need X but can't have Y")
- NOT for routine tasks — first-principles ceremony on a CRUD form is cosplay
## Critical Patterns
### 1. Separate the bedrock from the sediment
List everything "known" about the problem, then sort each item: **bedrock**
(verifiably true — physics, math, a measured number, a hard external
constraint) or **sediment** (policy, habit, "we've always", someone's
preference, an assumption nobody re-checked). Most impossible problems are
possible once two pieces of sediment get deleted. The question that does the
work: "what would have to be true for this constraint to NOT apply?" — then
check whether it already is. And when the sort finds only bedrock — nothing
deletable — that is a finding too: the problem is real as stated, and the
move is to negotiate the requirement with whoever owns it or to optimize
inside it, not to keep digging for a loophole that isn't there.
### 2. Find the real problem behind the stated one
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-first-principles@sha256:1bc0f51ec8e44b6aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1, 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.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 2026.
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Source
jrodrigopuca/local-agents · 2 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q56obizoojak4ccm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-first-principles GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1bc0f51ec8e44b6a8a3e62b6e2b7cdb0fb5f94de3bea83cc4a649b69e96fd594
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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