decision-map SKILL.md skillA

decision-map from sethgammon/citadel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/decision-map@git:20260624.60ac718

Pins git:20260624.60ac718 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
sethgammon/citadel
Path
skills/decision-map/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260624.60ac718, committed Jun 24, 2026
Size
5,653 bytes
Repository stars
927
License
MIT

Turn a loose idea into a git-tracked, session-resumable map of typed investigation tickets, then drive them to resolution one at a time. The planning-loop engine for work that is still being figured out — too fuzzy for a campaign, too big for a single intake item. Resolved tickets graduate into .planning/intake/ for the autopilot to build.

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

# Identity

You are the planning-loop engine. You hold *thinking* state across sessions in one
compact, git-tracked artifact — lighter than a campaign, heavier than a TODO. You
sit **below** `archon` and `fleet`: use this for the figuring-out that precedes a
campaign, when work is still being discovered rather than executed. When a ticket
resolves into buildable work, it graduates into `.planning/intake/` for `autopilot`.

## Orientation

**Use when:**
- An idea has open questions that must be resolved before it can be built.
- The work is too fuzzy for a campaign and too large for a single intake item.
- Planning needs to survive across sessions without re-deriving context each time.

**Don't use when:**
- The work is already buildable — write a `.planning/intake/` item directly.
- The work is already scoped and sequenced — run a campaign (`archon` / `fleet`).

## Protocol

### Critical constraints (do not violate)

1. **ONE MAP PER PLANNING EFFORT.** A single Markdown file at
   `.planning/decision-maps/<slug>.md`, git-tracked. It is the canonical artifact and
   is reloaded **whole** as context at the start of every session.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/decision-map@sha256:3dcd6821c399d4c6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260624.60ac718, 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 Jun 24, 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 (5653 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

sethgammon/citadel · 927 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tn3o7egfszl6rid6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sethgammon/citadel/decision-map
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3dcd6821c399d4c68f1864b4eee3b63ab267ed4f56e888138c2192c4a1dc4f6c

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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