quota-saving-mode SKILL.md skillA
quota-saving-mode from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/quota-saving-mode@git:20261104.de003c4Pins git:20261104.de003c4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
- Path
skills/quota-saving-mode/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261104.de003c4, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 10,934 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Reduce model quota spent on repeated supervision, polling, context loading, and status chatter when the user asks for quota-saving operation. Preserve scientific rigor and task quality; do not silently downgrade models or narrow the goal.
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
# Quota-Saving Mode Spend reasoning on decisions, implementation and verification—not repeatedly rediscovering unchanged state. This is an operating preference, not a runtime setting or a guarantee about billed usage. Follow required progress reporting, tool wait limits, safety rules and the user's model choices. ## Default operating loop - Choose a meaningful next decision boundary and the evidence that would change the action. Work through a coherent block instead of ending a turn after each healthy poll; an automatically resumed goal can otherwise become a costly status loop. Do not pause an authorized goal merely to save quota. - Separate **mechanical health checks** from **scientific review**. Check startup and unfamiliar failure modes promptly. Once healthy, use the existing expected cadence: ordinarily minutes for cheap process/error checks, a checkpoint or roughly 15–30 minutes for substantive interpretation. Shorten this when delayed action would lose evidence, leave resources idle or miss a deadline. These are defaults, not permission to weaken a required monitor. - Prefer existing completion signals or native interruptible waits. Where tools …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/quota-saving-mode@sha256:c16beee56ed9cdffThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.de003c4, 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 Sep 22, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 22 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261104.de003c4 latest | 2026-11-04 | de003c4 | 10,934 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.a12f4c4 | 2026-10-18 | a12f4c4 | 10,939 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.cc36cca | 2026-09-22 | cc36cca | 9,919 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 (10934 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
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tohtazlkcgppamll GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/quota-saving-mode GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c16beee56ed9cdffb51cd043b45a163f8a62b102c81b1c63a0a34ee5927eb124
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.