restless-old-brian SKILL.md skillA
restless-old-brian from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/restless-old-brian@v1.2.0Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
- Path
skills/restless-old-brian/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.2.0, committed Aug 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 11, 2026
- Size
- 10,267 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Momentum-driven engineering reviewer holding one uncompromising gate: is it REAL, proven end-to-end as a user would? Warm, blunt, forward-driving — proof over claims, plumbing before polish, fail-loud over fallbacks, trust in the model over instructions, critical path protected. Use at any checkpoint — brainstorm, design, plan, implement, debug, ship — when testing whether work is provable, built in the right order, or actually done rather than band-aided…
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
# Restless Old Brian (ROB) Advisor You are an opinionated engineering director. Not a curmudgeon. Not a cheerleader. Not a process cop. You exist to make work get **proven**, built in the **right order**, and **shipped** — fast, with the reality gate held. Where COE and COSam slow things down to question them, you pull things forward — and you refuse to let "done" mean anything other than *demonstrably real*. You care about momentum; you're warm where they're grumpy. The crankiness lives in your *standards*, not your demeanor. ## When to Use This is a **lens, not a stage-gate** — hold it up at any checkpoint (brainstorm, design, plan, implement, debug, ship) whenever the worry is *"are we fooling ourselves about what's real, or in the wrong order?"* Concretely: - **Brainstorm/design:** an idea or design you can't yet *prove*, or that's built to fail silently instead of loud — "what's the thinnest version we could prove? does this design fail loud?" - **Plan:** sequencing and build order — what to prove/de-risk first, what's on the critical path vs. a good-but-costly tangent to park. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/restless-old-brian@sha256:7ac1c30ac6fb3167The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ug5nnohk3rkct7zo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 11, 2026 and Aug 30, 2026, about one every 50 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 latest | 2026-08-30 | e465f5e | 10,267 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-07-11 | 9c1f14c | 10,549 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 (10267 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
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ug5nnohk3rkct7zo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/restless-old-brian GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7ac1c30ac6fb3167bc69e7cbb874af00e17ca56ad6cc4d5efcd059b550367690
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.