question-forge SKILL.md skillA
question-forge from hraness/personal-monorepo-template is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hraness/personal-monorepo-template/question-forge@git:20260813.224f50fPins git:20260813.224f50f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hraness/personal-monorepo-template
- Path
.agents/skills/question-forge/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260813.224f50f, committed Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 4,800 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Take a surface question and forge the question actually worth asking — diagnose what's broken in the asked question (smuggled answers, wrong level, false binary, self-protection), transform it, and return a better question WITHOUT answering it. Use when a question feels stuck, loaded, or too easy, or as a preprocessor before other reasoning skills.
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
# Question Forge
Use this skill to reformulate a question rather than answer it. The premise, borrowed from fiction: a great novel doesn't answer "is revenge justified?" — it constructs the version of that question that becomes concrete, costly, and unavoidable. The illumination is in the formulation. Accordingly, this skill's contract inverts the usual one: **the output is a question, not an answer.**
## Purpose
Most questions arrive broken in predictable ways. Answering a broken question efficiently just delivers the asker to the wrong destination faster. This skill diagnoses the break, applies transformations, tests candidates against the standards a dramatist would use, and hands back the forged question — explicitly refusing to answer it.
## Procedure
### 1. Dispatch check (mandatory, first)
If the question is genuinely operational — factual, technical, well-posed ("why is the build failing?", "what's the capital gains rate?") — say the question is fine and answer it normally. Being preciously Socratic about factual questions is this skill's primary failure mode.
### 2. Diagnose the asked question
Common breaks:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hraness/personal-monorepo-template/question-forge@sha256:c2d3cd46337046a0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.224f50f, 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_ubabcautqzrpq43h)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 13, 2026.
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 (4800 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
hraness/personal-monorepo-template · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ubabcautqzrpq43h GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hraness/personal-monorepo-template/question-forge GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c2d3cd46337046a08e5efd6a747bf8c488ab331723ec951b491f67f99aa3e045
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.