idea-refinement SKILL.md skillA
idea-refinement from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/idea-refinement@git:20261003.f0c84d6Pins git:20261003.f0c84d6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/idea-refinement/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261003.f0c84d6, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 6,577 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when a rough product, service, workflow or feature idea needs divergent options and assumption pressure-testing before it becomes a spec. Produces a decision brief with alternatives, evidence gaps, Not Now and a cheap experiment. NOT requirements or acceptance criteria (`specify`), NOT market sizing (`market-research`).
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
# idea-refinement — make the idea earn its direction Use this before `specify`, while the question is still “which version of this idea is worth pursuing?” The output is not a backlog or a polished pitch. It is a short decision brief that widens the option space, exposes what is merely assumed, and recommends the cheapest sensible direction to test. Inspect any brief, notes, product or repository already supplied before asking questions. Ask one question at a time only when the answer would change the option space. The user may delegate a choice; “use your judgment” is valid authority when the decision is reversible and the assumptions are made visible. ## The refinement loop ```text FRAME → DIVERGE → CHALLENGE → CONVERGE → TEST ``` ### 1. FRAME the real opportunity Write five lines, no solution language yet: - **Actor:** who is struggling, in what situation? - **Current workaround:** what do they do now, including “do nothing”? - **Desired progress:** what observable change would make this useful? - **Constraints:** time, money, channel, trust, regulation, existing product. - **Known / assumed:** separate evidence already seen from hypotheses that only sound plausible. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/idea-refinement@sha256:dcd7748bfabb14d2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.f0c84d6, 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_reajgngbjwilwlkn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 6, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 58 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261003.f0c84d6 latest | 2026-10-03 | f0c84d6 | 6,577 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.2c14dfb | 2026-08-06 | 2c14dfb | 6,432 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 (6577 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
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_reajgngbjwilwlkn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/idea-refinement GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dcd7748bfabb14d2643259a0b116c265a267249190ee33b9c47bab2f1a2f512a
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