correct-course SKILL.md skillA
correct-course from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/correct-course@git:20261020.f57e6a3Pins git:20261020.f57e6a3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrislacey89/skills
- Path
correct-course/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261020.f57e6a3, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 15, 2026
- Size
- 10,712 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Side-route skill for explicit backtracking when an upstream artifact becomes untrustworthy. Use when research, PRD, or slice decomposition has been invalidated by new information and you need to clean up stale artifacts before re-running an earlier pipeline step. Not for forward progress, fresh shaping, or routine bug fixes.
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
# Correct Course Run this skill when something has changed — new information, a failed assumption, a reshaped scope — and the current pipeline artifact can no longer be trusted. `/correct-course` diagnoses the blast radius, names the earliest skill that needs to re-run, and walks you through cleaning up stale artifacts before forward motion resumes. This is the named, invocable form of the Pipeline Recovery rules in `references/SYSTEM-OVERVIEW.md` (bundled alongside this skill). Those rules still apply — this skill just gives them a front door. > **One question per turn.** Throughout this skill, ask one question at a time and wait for the user's answer before asking the next. Backtracking is a conversation, not a form. > > **Prefer single-select.** Use single-select multiple choice when the user is choosing one direction, one priority, or one next step. > > **Use multi-select rarely.** Reserve it for compatible sets — goals, constraints, non-goals, success criteria — that can all coexist. If prioritization matters, follow up asking which selected item is primary. > …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/correct-course@sha256:302f465de88eb15bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.f57e6a3, 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_voqwrj7qk5fwqadj)
6 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Apr 15, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 24 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261020.f57e6a3 latest | 2026-10-20 | f57e6a3 | 10,712 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.50d83ac | 2026-10-20 | 50d83ac | 10,648 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.ef5d7a9 | 2026-10-20 | ef5d7a9 | 10,699 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.0fb326b | 2026-10-18 | 0fb326b | 10,459 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.f4708f5 | 2026-08-27 | f4708f5 | 9,996 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260424.de3ec9f | 2026-04-24 | de3ec9f | 9,973 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260417.e042aae | 2026-04-17 | e042aae | 9,774 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260417.56cff58 | 2026-04-17 | 56cff58 | 9,175 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260415.595dffa | 2026-04-15 | 595dffa | 9,175 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10712 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
chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch prod
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_voqwrj7qk5fwqadj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrislacey89/skills/correct-course GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/302f465de88eb15bba325e54a0a5b3c41f88c2e63f3f620a35791a8ad94b1f8e
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.