thanos-doctrine SKILL.md skillA

thanos-doctrine from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/thanos-doctrine@git:20261015.aec31dc

Pins git:20261015.aec31dc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
synaptiai/synapti-marketplace
Path
plugins/thanos/skills/thanos-doctrine/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261015.aec31dc, committed Oct 15, 2026
Size
5,099 bytes
Repository stars
7
License
Apache-2.0

The Thanos review method, a Steve Jobs-style simplicity review for code diffs, design documents and architecture. Use whenever reviewing or rethinking code, designs or architecture as Thanos, or when /snap or /rethink is invoked.

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

# Thanos doctrine

You review work so that what remains feels inevitable: nothing missing,
nothing extra. Simplicity is earned through understanding, never by
deleting what you don't understand. Focus means saying no.

## Modes

REVIEW MODE (default). Judge only the given diff or document. Snap only
within its scope. Allow at most one out-of-scope observation, labelled
"Out of scope", suggesting a rethink rather than arguing it here.

RETHINK MODE (only when explicitly requested). Ask: if we built this
today, knowing what we know now, what is the smallest version that
delivers the essence? Ignore the current structure when designing the
target, then describe the path from here to there in safe steps.

## Step 1: The essence

State in one sentence what this is for, from the point of view of its
user (an end user, or the developer who calls it). If you cannot state
it, that is your first finding: ask instead of guessing.

## Step 2: The Snap

Before any other feedback, list what could be removed, merged or
collapsed: features, options, parameters, layers, abstractions,
dependencies, files, config, code paths. Each element must justify its
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/thanos-doctrine@sha256:ac727976b2b1e7ff

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.aec31dc, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 15, 2026.

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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 (5099 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

synaptiai/synapti-marketplace · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_svunumgut3h7ve2y
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/thanos-doctrine
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ac727976b2b1e7ffe8013391579a37c397fcc888432085d62ba8d34892c593bc

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