wayfinder SKILL.md skillA
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wayfinder from gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/wayfinder@git:20260912.9737909Pins git:20260912.9737909 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven
- Path
.agents/skills/wayfinder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260912.9737909, committed Sep 12, 2026
- Size
- 15,563 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Chart a too-big effort as a shared map of decision tickets on the Gaia headquarters issue tracker, then resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear. Use when someone says: "this is too big for one session", "chart a map", "wayfinder map", "plan this effort", "what do we need to decide first", "open a wayfinder", "work the map", "what's on the frontier", or /wayfinder. Covers any gaia-research org repo — gaia-skill-tree, gaia-research, gaia-skill-heaven and beyond — but…
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What the file says
# wayfinder (Gaia) This is the Gaia expression of Matt Pocock's `wayfinder` skill. Upstream is deliberately tracker-agnostic: it says *"the issue tracker should have been provided to you… consult the tracker doc's 'Wayfinding operations' section for how THIS repo expresses them."* **This file is that document.** Upstream owns the method; this file pins down the mechanics — where maps live, how tickets are created and nested, how blocking is expressed, how the frontier is queried, how a ticket is claimed, how a resolution is recorded. Read the upstream SKILL.md for the method ([mattpocock/skills → engineering/wayfinder](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/wayfinder/SKILL.md)); read this for how Gaia does it. Wayfinder is **cartography**: planning an effort too big for one agent session as a map of *decision* tickets, worked one at a time until nothing is left to decide. It is not backlog hygiene and not issue resolution — see [Not this skill](#not-this-skill). --- ## 1. Headquarters — one tracker, many repos **Every map and every ticket lives on the `gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree` issue tracker, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/wayfinder@sha256:4cc80b1e92706916The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.9737909, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 12, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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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
- 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
gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vjyaaegtd2gmm5rb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/wayfinder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4cc80b1e92706916ef7bc038307b2e61a2f2002c8440e76f4cbf2357c8e08812
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