steel-quench SKILL.md skillA
steel-quench from chrono-meta/forge-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrono-meta/forge-harness/steel-quench@git:20261106.c0a07a1Pins git:20261106.c0a07a1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrono-meta/forge-harness
- Path
plugins/fh-meta/skills/steel-quench/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261106.c0a07a1, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 11, 2026
- Size
- 56,858 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31
- License
- MIT
All-angle verification meta-skill for near-complete artifacts. Turns vague design anxiety into structured challenger waves using fh-commons:quench-challenger, then drives defense and convergence until root weaknesses, residual risks, and added complexity are explicit. Covers standard attack/defense rounds, optional Meta-Aware Adversary mode for AI-specific risks such as hallucination, context collapse, prompt injection, and tool lock-in, and Wave-P3 re-attack after an upstream gate declares…
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
# steel-quench — All-Angle Verification Meta-Skill > Heating steel and plunging it into water brings internal defects to the surface. quench-challenger attacks → defense → repeat = systematic surfacing and elimination of design flaws. A designer's anxiety is most dangerous when vague. steel-quench breaks that anxiety into concrete attack angles, defends against them, and closes with residual risks explicitly stated. > **Scope boundary**: steel-quench stress-tests a **near-complete artifact** (post-build). For pre-build design decisions → `deliberation`. For completed-asset validation → `sim-conductor`. ## Trigger Phrases | Phrase | Situation | |---|---| | "quench this", "run quench" | All-angle verification just before completion | | "devil's judgment" | Focused challenger attack on specific design decision | | "all-angle review", "end-to-end verification" | Full project scope verification | | "shake out design anxiety", "deep pre-completion inspection" | Concretize vague anxiety | | "attack from the root" | Re-verify from reason for existence | | "diagnose with counterexample", "use this bad case as reference" | Phase 0 calibration | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrono-meta/forge-harness/steel-quench@sha256:2bfc66a82c34605aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.c0a07a1, 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 8 versions of this file, between Aug 11, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20261106.c0a07a1 latest | 2026-11-06 | c0a07a1 | 56,858 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.4a28f81 | 2026-10-19 | 4a28f81 | 56,305 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.bf9778a | 2026-10-19 | bf9778a | 55,405 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.088a844 | 2026-08-25 | 088a844 | 54,077 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.85ba918 | 2026-08-20 | 85ba918 | 53,190 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.fbbdbf3 | 2026-08-20 | fbbdbf3 | 49,655 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.f5822ee | 2026-08-18 | f5822ee | 45,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.eede7ad | 2026-08-11 | eede7ad | 44,016 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 (56858 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
chrono-meta/forge-harness · 31 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_shph2xzupx5zoer7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrono-meta/forge-harness/steel-quench GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2bfc66a82c34605add85b801b5bc3b07c989976c467ac1ba43cea9f88eb81a96
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