lh-next-step SKILL.md skillA
lh-next-step 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-next-step@v1.2Pins v1.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jrodrigopuca/local-agents
- Path
generalist/skills/lh-next-step/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.2, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 5,435 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- Apache-2.0
Decision model for choosing what to do next: continue, re-plan, stop, or escalate to the user. Trigger: load after a step fails or surprises you, before ending a turn on a task that took more than one step, when resuming one ("seguimos con lo de ayer"), or when a task will outlast the session or a context compaction and its state must live in a file. Ordering the steps before the first one is lh-decomposition. Not needed when the next action is obvious and reversible.
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
Act-vs-stop and "ask only what only the user knows" are base rules. This
skill is the cascade that applies them when the next step is not obvious.
## Critical Patterns
### 1. The decision cascade
Run these questions in order; the first "yes" decides.
```
1. Did reality contradict the task's framing? → STOP, report the mismatch
2. Is the next action irreversible or outward-facing → STOP, confirm with user
(delete, publish, send, force-push)?
3. Is the goal already met (per acceptance criteria)?→ VERIFY once more, then REPORT
4. Did the last step fail? → DIAGNOSE (don't retry blind)
5. Is a load-bearing assumption still unverified? → VERIFY IT next
6. Otherwise → cheapest step that most
reduces remaining uncertainty
```
### 2. Failure is information, not an obstacle
When a step fails, the next step is **diagnosis**, never a blind retry and never
an immediate workaround. Ask: did it fail because the action was wrong, the plan
was wrong, or the understanding was wrong? Each answer routes differently:
| Failure level | Next step |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-next-step@sha256:66e9d2105bf802c7The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2, 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_r4ioagzedz5wuk6q)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 14, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2 latest | 2026-10-14 | 5b652d2 | 5,435 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-10-14 | 9571e8f | 5,330 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 (5435 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
jrodrigopuca/local-agents · 2 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_r4ioagzedz5wuk6q GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jrodrigopuca/local-agents/lh-next-step GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/66e9d2105bf802c7789a0618d28b3e8380b3e16980b988687e396aded88ec45c
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.