normative-design SKILL.md skillA
normative-design from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/normative-design@git:20261021.4372ea9Pins git:20261021.4372ea9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents
- Path
skills/normative-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261021.4372ea9, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 3,154 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Legitimacy is a design property, not an afterthought. Use when a rule, policy, or allocation must be written or applied and the open question is "is this fair and consistently applied?" rather than "does it work", when a general rule does not determine a specific case, when harm emerged with nobody having decided it, or when "we've always done it this way" is the only justification on offer.
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
# Normative Design **Problem shape:** a rule, policy, default, or allocation is being designed, applied, or defended, and the load-bearing question is normative rather than technical — who bears the cost, whether the rule determines this case at all, whether responsibility dissolved across a chain of individually-reasonable steps, and whether the arrangement is actually justified or merely inherited. ## Relevant geniuses | Agent | Use when | |---|---| | [rawls](../../agents/genius/rawls.md) | legitimate values collide (privacy vs security, fairness vs efficiency) — design behind the veil of ignorance, without knowing which party you will be; check the arrangement against the worst-off position | | [hart](../../agents/genius/hart.md) | a general rule does not clearly determine the specific case — analyze the open texture, reason by precedent, separate the ratio decidendi from what merely accompanied it | | [arendt](../../agents/genius/arendt.md) | systemic harm occurred and no one intended it — audit for suppressed judgment and cog-in-machine structure before attributing malice | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/normative-design@sha256:660c6ee5243ff6b2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.4372ea9, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ua23hctwghalbv6q)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 38 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261021.4372ea9 latest | 2026-10-21 | 4372ea9 | 3,154 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.e8cc65e | 2026-08-05 | e8cc65e | 3,097 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.6bb43fa | 2026-08-05 | 6bb43fa | 3,070 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 (3154 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
cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ua23hctwghalbv6q GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/normative-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/660c6ee5243ff6b20985fb6e9a0390254fb0eba8147750c5fd1ae8cb2cb9b497
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