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zawinskis-law skillA

zawinskis-law is agent-read markdown (skill) from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer: Apply Zawinski's Law when discussing feature creep, scope expansion, the tendency for software to grow beyond its original purpose, or when evaluating whether to add a communication feature to a non-communication product. Trigger on phrases like "should we add messaging?", "every app becomes a platform", "our product is becoming too broad", "why does this tool have so many features?", "feature creep", or any discussion about the pressure on software to expand into adjacent functionality. Zawinsk.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/zawinskis-law@git:20260530.3e17152
Exact content
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/zawinskis-law@sha256:c50f76630fd54a20

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (4729 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

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sxjzlljacilg7i2r
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/zawinskis-law
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c50f76630fd54a2074fce81634221cb144f05dddad1fd971f09c0ceba3618fc5

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