principle-bind-to-named-inventory SKILL.md skillA

principle-bind-to-named-inventory from edbertchan/catstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/principle-bind-to-named-inventory@git:20260910.26ee82b

Pins git:20260910.26ee82b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
edbertchan/catstack
Path
corpus/skills/principle-bind-to-named-inventory/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260910.26ee82b, committed Sep 10, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 25, 2026
Size
2,073 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
none declared

Apply after an audit, scoring review, or a request for a "real classifier" / "less arbitrary weights" when existing scorers, rankers, or weight formulas were already named. Pick among those named gaps before proposing a new model or library.

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

# Bind to Named Inventory

After an audit (or any pass that names N existing scorers/rankers/formulas
and their failures), the next plan must pick among **those named gaps**.

Do not add a new model, library, or parallel scorer until each named system
is mapped: what it scores, whether its weights are literal or labeled, and
which failure the user is pointing at.

**Must always:**

- Bind phrases like "real classifier" or "these weights are arbitrary" onto
  a named scorer from the inventory ("the `.5/.3/.2` mix is finding-priority
  ranking; flag `a` appearing in two frauds is `fraud_learning` case
  frequency") before proposing sklearn, logistic regression, or a new file.
- Prefer replace-or-feed an existing scorer over adding a fourth.
- If the user is not comfortable with ML, teach the existing named scorers
  first. Offer a no-library path before a new dependency.

**Must never:**

- Box the user into a new prediction target that was not in the audit.
- Treat "I need a real classifier" as license to invent a model while an
  exact-string transfer gap already named in the same session sits unused.

**Battle-tested:** A scoring audit named three heuristics and that held-out
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/principle-bind-to-named-inventory@sha256:17915fb67b55f240

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260910.26ee82b, 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 2 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026, about one every 16 days.

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git:20260910.26ee82b latest2026-09-10 26ee82b 2,073 BA view · diff
git:20260825.847374d2026-08-25 847374d 2,049 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 (2073 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

edbertchan/catstack · 6 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_snxdjeegjtlq3ik5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/principle-bind-to-named-inventory
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/17915fb67b55f240182d3163c0bacb866ebb45ecc9104fcc1864f20ee14a13f4

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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