holy-chain SKILL.md skillA

holy-chain from arbi-elezi/emperor-time is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/holy-chain@v0.2.0

Pins v0.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
arbi-elezi/emperor-time
Path
chains/holy-chain/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.2.0, committed Sep 28, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 27, 2026
Size
2,881 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Emperor Time's thumb chain — restoration. Router for four aspects: triage (stop digging, snapshot, bracket the breakage), reproduce-and-bisect (make it fail on demand, isolate the cause one hypothesis at a time), heal-and-verify (minimal fix, root-cause proof, postmortem line), and process healing (recovering a derailed loop, skipped gates, bad merges from enlisted agents, delivered breaches). Engage when something breaks — a regression, a red build, corrupted state, or the process itself.…

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

# Holy Chain — router

> *Enhancement poured into restoration. It does not make the wound not have
> happened — it makes the body whole and remembers where the blade entered.*

Prime directive: **stop digging.** The moment breakage is detected, the
current activity pauses. Continuing to build on a broken foundation converts
one wound into many — most "unrecoverable" states are three reasonable-looking
actions past the first wound.

## Selection table — read exactly one

| Your situation | Aspect file |
|---|---|
| Breakage just detected — secure the scene before anything else | `triage.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor triage`) |
| Scene secured — make it fail on demand and isolate the cause | `reproduce-and-bisect.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor reproduce`) |
| Cause isolated — fix minimally and prove the cure | `heal-and-verify.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor heal-verify`) |
| The *process* broke: skipped gate, bad agent-merge, delivered falsehood, derailed loop | `process-healing.md` (mechanical: `scripts/emperor process-heal`) |

Code wounds run the sequence: `triage.md` → `reproduce-and-bisect.md` →
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/holy-chain@sha256:1ea4278fe2eaef35

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_u74riqkjbyfizq4p.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_u74riqkjbyfizq4p)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026, more than one a day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.2.0 latest2026-09-28 c7d8bd0 2,881 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-09-28 8632c63 2,836 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-09-28 d07ac02 2,797 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-09-28 e24cf29 2,755 BA view · diff
v0.2.02026-09-27 95c7f71 2,711 BA view

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 (2881 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

arbi-elezi/emperor-time · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u74riqkjbyfizq4p
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arbi-elezi/emperor-time/holy-chain
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ea4278fe2eaef35bee3ab0652ca0e997468c91c1729e17df3a94750d60e9ee1

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.

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