diverge SKILL.md skillA
diverge from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/diverge@git:20261105.dee0bc5Pins git:20261105.dee0bc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/diverge/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261105.dee0bc5, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 26, 2026
- Size
- 8,124 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Generates 3-5 conceptually distinct approaches labeled Novel, Surprising, Diverse, or Conventional, and holds for the user's selection before implementing. The --codex mode runs the brainstorm on GPT-6 Astra via codex exec, then has Codex implement the selected approach. Use before committing to an approach when a creative, architectural, or analytical task has more than one non-obvious solution; use --codex when another model family should widen the range.
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
# Diverge Interrupt the default path of jumping to the most probable — and least creative — solution. Use a new output path or directory for each run; preserve earlier results and existing user edits. ## Heritage and scope An original Open Science Skills workflow grounded in **Creative Preference Optimization** (Ismayilzada et al., 2025; background in `reference/creative-preference-optimization.md` in this skill's directory). Standard preference alignment (RLHF/DPO) optimizes for the most human-expected output, which is by construction the least surprising one. The paper's most accessible remedy — its own "brainstorm-then-select" baseline — needs no fine-tuning: force divergence before convergence, require that at least one approach is surprising and one is novel, and defer quality and implementation until after selection. Use it wherever more than one non-obvious solution exists — creative, architectural, or analytical work — and not for rote tasks with one correct answer (fix this syntax error). …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/diverge@sha256:9ff59786d5b1f7eeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.dee0bc5, 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 9 versions of this file, between Jul 26, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20261105.dee0bc5 latest | 2026-11-05 | dee0bc5 | 8,124 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.cd70e9b | 2026-10-08 | cd70e9b | 8,155 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 8,178 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 8,188 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.c12f077 | 2026-09-05 | c12f077 | 8,239 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.39e8276 | 2026-09-05 | 39e8276 | 8,208 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 8,108 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.80b1ab4 | 2026-08-06 | 80b1ab4 | 3,935 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.ec471db | 2026-07-26 | ec471db | 3,334 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 (8124 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
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rqwzjxx662dqtiwl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/diverge GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9ff59786d5b1f7ee711a2ab8aa2d1876cee6468e1f5a9f91ccac4ba8c2ee01e6
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