workflow SKILL.md skillA
workflow from cognitive-fab/polygraph is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cognitive-fab/polygraph/workflow@git:20260807.2705388Pins git:20260807.2705388 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cognitive-fab/polygraph
- Path
skills/workflow/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260807.2705388, committed Aug 7, 2026
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- 7,544 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- Apache-2.0
Build an LLM-era feature as a WORKFLOW, not an agentic loop — the composition skill that drives the whole toolset end-to-end. Design the stages along the data flow with the user (each failure either bends back to ONE named stage carrying its exact signal under a bounded budget, or escalates to a human), front-load the contract and the never-happens invariants, author the machine with polygen, declare effects (determinism at the edges, the model as one well-scoped handler), prove the anti-loop…
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
# workflow — build it as a workflow, not a loop
The composition skill: where `polygen` authors one machine, this skill builds
the whole feature the workflows-not-loops way, driving the other engines in
order. The method's premise (after Adron Hall's "Loop Engineering" critique):
an agentic loop exists to compensate for starved context, missing
decomposition, and clock-driven correction — remove each reason and the loop
collapses into a directed, checkable workflow. Each of those removals is an
ARTIFACT here, not advice.
The full worked recipe with rationale is
`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/examples/workflows-not-loops/MANUAL.md`; the two
reference builds are `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/examples/workflows-not-loops/`
(document pipeline, incl. the v1→v2 polyvers evolution) and
`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/examples/todo-machine/` (an ordinary app: durable
per-item timers replacing the cron scan, plus an HTTP shell). Read the
MANUAL before Step 1; crib file shapes from the examples, not from memory.
> Same disclosure as every engine: the checks are exhaustive over the
> contract's DECLARED finite domains — a consistency check, not a proof. The
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cognitive-fab/polygraph/workflow@sha256:9d13c728f28423f3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260807.2705388, 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_uvjjfl3ghezebfsr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 7, 2026.
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Source
cognitive-fab/polygraph · 15 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uvjjfl3ghezebfsr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cognitive-fab/polygraph/workflow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d13c728f28423f34290010cf0d5b389dc7de3c056f42caf889463963f46a3c7
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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