blindspot SKILL.md skillA

blindspot from donald-ada/workinggenius is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/blindspot@git:20260925.8d07e01

Pins git:20260925.8d07e01 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
donald-ada/workinggenius
Path
skills/blindspot/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260925.8d07e01, committed Sep 25, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 11, 2026
Size
2,648 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Find the unknowns before they find the work — a read-only territory pass that surfaces the questions nobody knew to ask, judgment taught before a choice is extracted, and a quiz that catches the user's map up with what actually changed. Use when work enters territory the user calls unfamiliar, when the user is confirming a choice they can't evaluate, or when the user asks what they're missing or wants to be quizzed before accepting built work.

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

# Blindspot

The map — your prompt, your plan, your glossary — is not the territory: the codebase, its history, its real constraints. The gap between them is the unknowns, and an unknown left unfound doesn't stay unfound: the diff review finds it, or production does.

The concept: **go look, at the three moments the gap is widest.**

- **Before unfamiliar work** — walk the territory, read-only, as a fresh frontier-tier subagent: hunting unknown unknowns is judgment, not reading, and the fresh context means the main session consumes the report instead of re-walking the files. The task message carries the area to walk, that the walk is read-only, that no taxonomy limits what counts, and that every finding carries its evidence and a pothole is found, never manufactured, because the subagent sees none of this skill and knows only what the message says. The code, its tests, its history — where it bit last time is the best predictor of where it bites next. Report whatever matters — questions nobody thought to ask, what "good" looks like here, potholes, a sharper ask; no taxonomy limits what counts. Every finding carries its evidence, and potholes are found, never manufactured.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add donald-ada/workinggenius/blindspot@sha256:b4704c882d0ef4ba

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.8d07e01, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jul 11, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 15 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260925.8d07e01 latest2026-09-25 8d07e01 2,648 BA view · diff
git:20260906.efaff192026-09-06 efaff19 2,217 BA view · diff
git:20260808.234d1112026-08-08 234d111 2,442 BA view · diff
git:20260806.925accf2026-08-06 925accf 2,377 BA view · diff
git:20260806.d473e0a2026-08-06 d473e0a 8,024 BA view · diff
git:20260711.7cbcd322026-07-11 7cbcd32 7,234 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 (2648 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

donald-ada/workinggenius · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rs5vym5t56jzaxwi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=donald-ada/workinggenius/blindspot
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b4704c882d0ef4ba7b1db9b04cbb0b52486fa58f434fc861340479c97cfa9ef3

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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