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linuss-law from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/linuss-law@git:20260530.3e17152

Pins git:20260530.3e17152 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
Path: linuss-law/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260530.3e17152, committed May 30, 2026
Size: 3,999 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Apply Linus's Law when discussing code review practices, open source contributions, bug finding strategies, security auditing, or the value of having more people look at code. Trigger on phrases like "should we do code reviews?", "we don't have time for reviews", "how do we find bugs faster?", "open source is more secure", "how many reviewers do we need?", or any discussion about the relationship between the number of people examining code and the quality of that code.

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

# Linus's Law

> "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
> — Attributed to Linus Torvalds; popularized by Eric Raymond in *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*, 1999

## The core idea

When enough people examine a codebase, bugs that might seem deeply hidden to any individual reviewer will be found. What's opaque to one person is obvious to another. Different reviewers bring different mental models, experiences, and areas of focus.

This is the argument for both code review and open source development as quality mechanisms.

## Why more eyeballs help

**Cognitive diversity.** Different reviewers think differently. One person might miss an off-by-one error; another will spot it immediately. One reviewer notices the security implication that the author never considered.

**Assumption blindness.** Authors are blind to their own assumptions. You can't see what you took for granted. A reviewer who doesn't share those assumptions sees the gap.

**Familiarity blindness.** After staring at code, you read what you meant to write, not what you wrote. Fresh eyes catch typos in variable names, wrong constants, and logic inversions that authors routinely miss.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/linuss-law@sha256:9231d7b182b28e4d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260530.3e17152, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_qpwx5fein3biqrqs.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qpwx5fein3biqrqs)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 30, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260530.3e17152 latest	2026-05-30	3e17152	3,999 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3999 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

GitHub

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qpwx5fein3biqrqs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/linuss-law
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9231d7b182b28e4d04a91bf4b7b91d8a7ee0c4c52bb21024f825f4d71c7020f9

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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