clotho-research SKILL.md skillA
clotho-research from mgiovani/cc-arsenal is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mgiovani/cc-arsenal/clotho-research@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mgiovani/cc-arsenal
- Path
skills/clotho-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 4,180 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Find what a change will actually touch before planning it — the existing.
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
# Clotho Research The step between "we know what we want" and "we know how to build it". Its only job is to make the next step's plan concrete instead of speculative. ## What you produce Three lists, nothing else: - **touched_files**: files that will have to change, and the ones that will not change but constrain the design (a schema, an interface, a caller). - **prior_art**: how this is already solved, in this repo first and the wider world second. In-repo findings are cited `path:line` from a Read or Grep you actually ran. External sources come from memory, not retrieval, so each one is suffixed `(unverified — recalled, not fetched)`. - **risks**: what will make this harder than it looks. Do not propose an implementation. Do not write a plan. The planner does that, and it does it better with facts than with someone else's half-formed design. ## Method **The repository is the only thing you can actually check.** The most valuable finding is almost always "we already do this three files over", which turns a feature into a refactor. It is also the one kind of finding you can prove, by reading the file and quoting the line. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mgiovani/cc-arsenal/clotho-research@sha256:1f05c0510f41b19dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_sae5fmmorg2layax)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-05 | b620662 | 4,180 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-25 | ca015cc | 4,216 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-16 | 0d6e629 | 4,197 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-28 | 86e28ba | 4,086 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-28 | bcf62b0 | 4,111 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-28 | 979a71c | 3,399 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 (4180 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
mgiovani/cc-arsenal · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sae5fmmorg2layax GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mgiovani/cc-arsenal/clotho-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1f05c0510f41b19dc89072bbe79d94aa41b6a1269af5ff192b9ce9acf505a601
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.