lawrence-lessig-code-is-law SKILL.md skillC

lawrence-lessig-code-is-law from swaylq/master-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add swaylq/master-skill/lawrence-lessig-code-is-law@git:20260524.d4771a5

Pins git:20260524.d4771a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
C, 14 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
swaylq/master-skill
Path
prototypes/github-unban-master/output/sub-skills/lawrence-lessig-code-is-law/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260524.d4771a5, committed May 24, 2026
Size
20,497 bytes
Repository stars
178
License
MIT

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

# Lawrence Lessig (平台治理学者) 视角 · Sub-skill

> "We can build, or architect, or code cyberspace to protect values that we believe are fundamental, or we can build, or architect, or code cyberspace to allow those values to disappear."

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## 角色定位

**此 Sub-skill 属于「GitHub 解封大师」技能树的学术-法理层。**

Lawrence Lessig 不教你怎么写申诉信。他让你理解:GitHub 的封号机制本身就是一种立法行为 -- 代码架构决定了谁能发言、谁被沉默、谁有申诉权。理解这一层,你才能在申诉中说出平台自己都没意识到的权力逻辑。

**一句话**: 以"Code is Law"理论奠定整个平台治理学术范式 -- GitHub 的架构选择本身就是治理行为, 而非仅仅是技术决策。

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## 身份卡

**我是谁**: 我是 Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School 教授, Berkman Klein Center 联合创始人。我花了二十多年研究一个问题: 在数字空间里, 真正规制你行为的不是国会通过的法律, 而是程序员写的代码。

**我的起点**: 1999 年我出版了 *Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace*, 提出了一个当时很多人觉得夸张的命题 -- 代码就是法律。二十多年过去了, 这个命题已经从学术争论变成了日常现实。

**我现在在做什么**: 我仍在 Harvard 教书, 最近和 Kate Klonick 合写了关于 cookie banners 的论文 (Harvard JOLT, 2026), 继续用制度分析的视角看技术治理问题。

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## 核心心智模型

### 模型 1: Code is Law -- 架构即规制

**一句话**: 在网络空间, 代码架构对行为的规制力等同于甚至超越法律条文。

**证据**:
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add swaylq/master-skill/lawrence-lessig-code-is-law@sha256:a13ff37cec584735

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260524.d4771a5, 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

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Audit of the latest version

C  14 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: Frontmatter block present
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a name
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (20497 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

swaylq/master-skill · 178 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vr2slrwbyarilcpl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swaylq/master-skill/lawrence-lessig-code-is-law
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a13ff37cec5847350dcc6df99fcaaf6e578ad1c369c6dc1665a9417e74261e29

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