kill-initiative SKILL.md skillA
kill-initiative from tomzx/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tomzx/agents/kill-initiative@git:20261007.b35fc4bPins git:20261007.b35fc4b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomzx/agents
- Path
skills/pdlc/skills/kill-initiative/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261007.b35fc4b, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 2,552 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Explicitly stop a product initiative — reallocate roadmap capacity, record the sunset-or-pivot rationale, and notify stakeholders. The inverse of prioritize.
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
# Kill Initiative Killing an initiative is hard and rarely written down, so it gets its own skill. It converts a `kill` gate verdict (or a manual decision to stop) into a durable record, frees the capacity the initiative was consuming, and tells stakeholders. ## Prerequisites - Apply the shared PDLC conventions in `skills/pdlc/references/shared.md`. - The initiative to stop (`$1` as `INIT-N`, or resolve from `.pdlc/state.yml`). ## Steps 1. Locate the initiative directory under `.pdlc/initiatives/`. 2. Record the kill via `make-decision` (general decision) if no gate decision already recorded it. The decision body states the rationale: the strongest evidence that killed it (negative experiment, no real problem, cost > value, guardrail breach). 3. Update the initiative's `progress.md`: set `current_phase: killed`, record `killed_at` date, and write a one-line rationale. 4. Reallocate capacity: update `.pdlc/context/roadmap.md` to remove or downgrade the initiative from its Now/Next/Later slot, freeing the slot for the next priority. 5. Capture a learning via `run-retrospective` so the kill produces organizational knowledge, not just a silent deletion. …
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How to install
mdr add tomzx/agents/kill-initiative@sha256:d93a0a7337c03c47The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.b35fc4b, 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 3 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 31 days.
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| git:20261007.b35fc4b latest | 2026-10-07 | b35fc4b | 2,552 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.00bb0c5 | 2026-10-04 | 00bb0c5 | 2,543 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.6b62307 | 2026-08-05 | 6b62307 | 2,524 B | A | view |
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Source
tomzx/agents · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sz2h2idshnrd35ll GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomzx/agents/kill-initiative GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d93a0a7337c03c4764c34f5d7231216455d507c92a197f338d7961bc19df32cb
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