alignment-values-north-star SKILL.md skillA
alignment-values-north-star from the-utopia-studio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add the-utopia-studio/skills/alignment-values-north-star@git:20260806.73fec06Pins git:20260806.73fec06 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- the-utopia-studio/skills
- Path
plugins/utopia-founder-productivity/skills/alignment-values-north-star/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260806.73fec06, committed Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 6,276 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- Apache-2.0
Creates actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values (guardrails), and decision tenets (behavioral standards). Enables autonomous decision-making while maintaining organizational coherence. Use when starting new teams, scaling organizations, defining culture, establishing product vision, resolving misalignment, creating strategic clarity, or when user mentions North Star, team values, mission, principles, guardrails, decision framework, or cultural…
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
# Alignment: Values & North Star ## Table of Contents - [Workflow](#workflow) - [1. Understand Context](#1--understand-context) - [2. Choose Framework](#2--choose-framework) - [3. Develop Alignment Artifact](#3--develop-alignment-artifact) - [4. Validate Quality](#4--validate-quality) - [5. Deliver and Socialize](#5--deliver-and-socialize) - [Common Patterns](#common-patterns) - [Guardrails](#guardrails) - [Quick Reference](#quick-reference) The framework has three layers: North Star (aspirational direction), Values/Guardrails (core operating principles), and Decision Tenets/Behaviors (concrete, observable demonstrations of values). **Quick Example:** ```markdown # Engineering Team Alignment ## North Star Build systems that developers love to use and operators trust to run. ## Values - **Simplicity**: Choose boring technology that works over exciting technology that might - **Reliability**: Every service has SLOs and we honor them - **Empathy**: Design for the developer experience, not just system performance ## Decision Tenets When choosing between options: ✓ Pick the solution with fewer moving parts …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add the-utopia-studio/skills/alignment-values-north-star@sha256:8a3bc59df0e9529fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260806.73fec06, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 6, 2026.
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Source
the-utopia-studio/skills · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qzexcc2mjxf7ezfa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-utopia-studio/skills/alignment-values-north-star GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8a3bc59df0e9529f1020a0d5bae06bad57a4927c58d0396b14844b1ddb4efb60
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