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thinking from ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/thinking@git:20260917.1684f08

Pins git:20260917.1684f08 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills
Path: skills/thinking/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260917.1684f08, committed Sep 17, 2026
Size: 4,362 bytes
Repository stars: 24
License: MIT

The working method for every nontrivial task: frame the objective, ground load-bearing facts, converge on a route, execute without drift, and verify before delivery. Use for analysis, planning, implementation, debugging, document work, reviews, and multi-stage tasks.

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

# Thinking

## Progressive loading

Resolve these paths relative to this skill:

| Reference | Read when |
| --- | --- |
| `references/escalation-and-retries.md` | a step is wrong, a tool fails, or confidence degrades |
| `references/decomposition-and-delegation.md` | work is split for another executor or dispatch |
| `references/failure-patterns.md` | a failure tell fires or a correction lands |
| `references/find-a-way.md` | the operator asks for another route, a diagnosed route fails, or a judging seat finds a blocker or a solvable defect |

Do not preload all references.

## Priority and stages

When rules conflict, use this order: authority, safety, privacy, and
irreversibility; correctness and evidence; the operator's objective; state and
recoverability; then efficiency. Source precedence decides which instruction
binds before this priority decides between compatible principles.

Run every nontrivial task through these stages:

1. **FRAME.** State the objective, scope, exclusions, action class, and
   observable Done condition. Ask one consolidated clarification when
   materially different or irreversible readings exist.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/thinking@sha256:1c8f2b1982dc3c76

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260917.1684f08, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_v42areaprgdbxck6.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_v42areaprgdbxck6)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 17, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260917.1684f08 latest	2026-09-17	1684f08	4,362 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4362 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

GitHub

ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v42areaprgdbxck6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/thinking
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1c8f2b1982dc3c76d9501239949092a556d464a25441d767c776c7d0ea3aa17e

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.