charter SKILL.md skillA

charter from sno-ai/sno-station-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add sno-ai/sno-station-skills/charter@git:20261001.8e39faf

Pins git:20261001.8e39faf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
sno-ai/sno-station-skills
Path
skills/T-delegation-and-work-orders/charter/skill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261001.8e39faf, committed Oct 1, 2026
Size
4,835 bytes
Repository stars
481
License
Apache-2.0

Write, revise or review a charter: the one document that tells an executor what to deliver, what is out of bounds, what the owner already decided, and how each success check will be proven. Use when work needs a written brief before someone else does it, or when asked to write, change or check a charter.

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

# charter

A charter is one markdown file that says what to deliver and how everyone will know it was
delivered. A task is named by its charter
filename. `charter` writes it; `deliver` carries a released charter out. Any kind of project
uses it: software, documents, campaigns, research, operations. The owner is whoever owns the
work (often the user); speak to them in the language they use.

Prerequisites: none to use it; its selftest needs bash and python3.

Read `references/template.md` for the file layout and `references/questions.md` before asking
the owner anything.

## Rules that keep a charter useful

- Preserve the owner's words and decisions. Never invent a decision, a fact or a requirement.
  A missing choice that would change the outcome is asked once, one question at a time, at the
  end of a message; independent work continues while it waits, and silence is not approval.
- Read the existing work first (files, documents, data, earlier decisions). Ask nothing they
  already answer.
- Every success check names what will be observed, where, and how, and can be answered pass or
  fail by a real run or inspection. The expected result comes from the requirement or from
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add sno-ai/sno-station-skills/charter@sha256:0e2bbe6b9208d9e0

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.8e39faf, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_qsyk7krc3a4djpa3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qsyk7krc3a4djpa3)

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Versions

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

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261001.8e39faf latest2026-10-01 8e39faf 4,835 BA 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 (4835 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

sno-ai/sno-station-skills · 481 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qsyk7krc3a4djpa3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sno-ai/sno-station-skills/charter
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0e2bbe6b9208d9e0d3bc5cfcbe12d29f98b85f34e7a9d85217e282aad16f8285

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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