anchoring SKILL.md skillA
anchoring from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/anchoring@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
anchoring/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 9,847 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
"Activate when: user says 'what's a fair price / starting number / ballpark'; counterparty just opened with a number; user is about to negotiate salary, valuation, or deal terms; user is making a forecast and a number has already been floated; user asks about 'first offer', 'framing effect', or 'being anchored'.
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
# Anchoring ## Overview When people estimate an unknown quantity they start from a reference point — an **anchor** — and adjust. The adjustment is almost always insufficient, so the final answer stays closer to the anchor than it should. This pattern holds even when the anchor is explicitly random and subjects are told to ignore it (Tversky & Kahneman 1974). It survives expertise, explicit warnings, and financial incentives for accuracy. Strategically: almost every consequential negotiation, valuation, or forecast begins with an anchor. The first number said or written — asking price, salary band, prior-round valuation, revenue projection — anchors everything that follows. Composes with: [`pricing-strategy`](../pricing-strategy/SKILL.md) · [`expected-value-and-kelly`](../expected-value-and-kelly/SKILL.md) · [`probabilistic-thinking`](../probabilistic-thinking/SKILL.md) · [`signaling-games`](../signaling-games/SKILL.md) ## When to Use Apply when: - About to negotiate a price, salary, valuation, contract term, or settlement - Estimating an uncertain quantity after a number has already been mentioned …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/anchoring@sha256:ab39e2959dde37e9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 9,847 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 9,847 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 9,847 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 9,847 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 9,847 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 (9847 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tc5xkafhabqcuio5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/anchoring GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ab39e2959dde37e930bd59c342b09f9a7872857b52de0c0e19eff5c7c5e57c9b
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.