autonomous-agents SKILL.md skillA
autonomous-agents from ghosteken/agent-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ghosteken/agent-harness/autonomous-agents@git:20260721.efafd9cPins git:20260721.efafd9c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ghosteken/agent-harness
- Path
archive/skills-community/autonomous-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260721.efafd9c, committed Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 29,846 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Autonomous agents are AI systems that can independently decompose.
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
# Autonomous Agents Autonomous agents are AI systems that can independently decompose goals, plan actions, execute tools, and self-correct without constant human guidance. The challenge isn't making them capable - it's making them reliable. Every extra decision multiplies failure probability. This skill covers agent loops (ReAct, Plan-Execute), goal decomposition, reflection patterns, and production reliability. Key insight: compounding error rates kill autonomous agents. A 95% success rate per step drops to 60% by step 10. Build for reliability first, autonomy second. 2025 lesson: The winners are constrained, domain-specific agents with clear boundaries, not "autonomous everything." Treat AI outputs as proposals, not truth. ## Principles - Reliability over autonomy - every step compounds error probability - Constrain scope - domain-specific beats general-purpose - Treat outputs as proposals, not truth - Build guardrails before expanding capabilities - Human-in-the-loop for critical decisions is non-negotiable - Log everything - every action must be auditable - Fail safely with rollback, not silently with corruption ## Capabilities - autonomous-agents - agent-loops …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ghosteken/agent-harness/autonomous-agents@sha256:785ea967ffa09460The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260721.efafd9c, 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_umt3faqbh4mae3sj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 21, 2026.
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- 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
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ghosteken/agent-harness · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_umt3faqbh4mae3sj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ghosteken/agent-harness/autonomous-agents GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/785ea967ffa094605bcfd7830d0b0f2bea0c840997c68312d1193a767b12b24c
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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