natural-planning SKILL.md skillA
natural-planning from fabiandistler/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/natural-planning@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fabiandistler/agents
- Path
skills/natural-planning/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 28, 2026
- Size
- 5,964 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- none declared
Plans one multi-step project with GTD's Natural Planning Model (purpose, outcome, brainstorm, organize, next actions). Use when a project feels stuck, vague, or overwhelming; not for inbox triage or picking today's task.
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
# Natural Planning Model Projects the brain plans well all go through the same five phases, whether or not anyone names them. David Allen's *Getting Things Done* (GTD) formalizes the sequence so it can be applied deliberately to projects that are stuck, vague, or new — to arrive at clear outcomes and concrete next actions. Apply it as a general reasoning tool, not as a prescription for how anyone must plan. ## When to use - A single project feels stuck, vague, or overwhelming and needs deliberate planning before action. - A to-do is not yet a concrete physical next action and belongs to a larger project that needs clarifying first. - A stalled project needs its purpose or outcome restated before organizing or picking actions. Not for: - Triaging an inbox or processing loose inputs into a task manager. - Picking what to work on today from existing next actions. ## The five phases | # | Phase | Key question / output | |---|-------|------------------------| | 1 | **Purpose & principles** | "Why are we doing this at all?" — success criteria, decision rules. | | 2 | **Envision the outcome** | "What does success look and feel like?" — a concrete completion picture. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/natural-planning@sha256:4746344eeb67e340The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-10-22 | e7a86a8 | 5,964 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-10-19 | 0b17a6a | 5,952 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-09-28 | ac28853 | 5,952 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-09-28 | 1a538bf | 5,790 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-09-28 | 657a64a | 8,743 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
fabiandistler/agents · 2 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uus52aeq3o5ijn5k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fabiandistler/agents/natural-planning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4746344eeb67e340d534a939b29b79d396beb2e3c5daf7eaf82a31aa11c819f8
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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.