jgsystemsconsulting/jgs-se-knowledge-packs · packs/gao-cost/SKILL.md

gao-cost skillA

gao-cost is agent-read markdown (skill) from jgsystemsconsulting/jgs-se-knowledge-packs: Knowledge base from the GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide (GAO-20-195G). Use for program cost estimating: the four characteristics of a reliable estimate (comprehensive, well documented, accurate, credible) and the 18 best practices; the 12-step cost estimating process (purpose, plan, technical baseline, WBS, ground rules and assumptions, data, point estimate, sensitivity, risk/uncertainty, document, present, update); estimating methods (analogy, parametric, engineering build-up, learning.

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.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add jgsystemsconsulting/jgs-se-knowledge-packs/gao-cost@git:20260624.177d6b6
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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (16465 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

jgsystemsconsulting/jgs-se-knowledge-packs · 5 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vd3vy5xvbpwe4i3h
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jgsystemsconsulting/jgs-se-knowledge-packs/gao-cost
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a446bb46063c8d68e57c8aa895ac3d83609f2b05fe528026c52d4eb42839bdfb

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