restless-old-brian skillA
restless-old-brian is agent-read markdown (skill) from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills: 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: "are we fooling ourselves about what's .
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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@v1.2.0mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/restless-old-brian@sha256:7ac1c30ac6fb3167Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ug5nnohk3rkct7zo)
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Versions
| 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 2026-09-23 · 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
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