answer-buzzkill SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

answer-buzzkill from alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills/answer-buzzkill@git:20261013.ecfffa1

Pins git:20261013.ecfffa1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills
Path
plugins/common/cortex-communication/skills/answer-buzzkill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261013.ecfffa1, committed Oct 13, 2026
Size
5,584 bytes
Repository stars
17
License
MIT

Write a short, fact-checked reply that answers a colleague's question in one meaning only, ready to copy and paste. The input is their pasted message. Check the claims against the code first, use the project glossary terms, and print only the reply in chat. Read-only — no writes to code, the issue tracker, GitHub, chat or any MCP. Use on "/cortex-communication:answer-buzzkill", "help me answer", "reply to this question", or when the user pastes a colleague's question and asks for an answer in…

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

# Answer Buzzkill

> "What's the word for душнила? Buzzkill?" — [Oleksandr Usyk](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GFOxVAQeK3g)

The input is a message from a colleague, pasted as is. The output is one reply that the user can paste back to them without editing.

## Who the colleague is

The colleague is a highly skilled software engineer. They do not need basics explained. They often ask follow-up questions one after another, and the thread goes deeper each time without reaching a decision. The reply must end that loop: give them a closed answer that matches their intention, and leave no open end for a new question.

Their intention is one of two types. Find which one before you write:

- **To do.** They must decide or build something. Give the answer and the one fact that decides their action.
- **To understand.** They want to know how the system behaves. Give the behaviour as a complete, closed statement: what happens, and where it stops.

## Side effects

Read-only. You can read code, git history, the issue tracker and any MCP. You must not write to any of them: no file edits, no commits, no ticket comments, no PR comments, no messages. The reply goes into chat only.

## Steps
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills/answer-buzzkill@sha256:656cfa98644f78d6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.ecfffa1, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_s7yhhcyrg2gkkt6l.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_s7yhhcyrg2gkkt6l)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 13, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261013.ecfffa1 latest2026-10-13 ecfffa1 5,584 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 (5584 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

alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s7yhhcyrg2gkkt6l
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills/answer-buzzkill
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/656cfa98644f78d618fdafb27159c5737c159cdb02685424800602be79b0da63

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.

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