third-degree SKILL.md skillA
third-degree from ananthanandanan/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/third-degree@git:20260514.847f61cPins git:20260514.847f61c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ananthanandanan/skills
- Path
skills/engineering/third-degree/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260514.847f61c, committed May 14, 2026
- Size
- 1,580 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Interview the user to converge on a shared, concrete understanding of a feature before any planning or implementation — the front of the ank pipeline (third-degree → visualise-plan → review-board). Use whenever the user invokes /ank:third-degree, says they have a "rough idea", asks you to "flush out the requirements", "interview me", "interrogate me", or otherwise signals the spec is fuzzy and needs pinning down before code or a plan is written.
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
# Third degree
The user has an idea but hasn't pressure-tested it. Interview them relentlessly — **one question at a time** — walking down each branch of the decision tree and resolving dependencies between decisions as you go. Before every question, grep the codebase for an existing convention, prior decision, or analogous feature that already answers it; if you find one, state the inferred answer in a single line ("Inferring X from `path/to/file` — say so if wrong.") and move on without asking. When you must ask, use `AskUserQuestion` with 2–4 concrete options and put your **Recommended** pick first with a one-line reason — never an open-ended prompt; structured options converge faster than free text. Keep going until you have genuine shared understanding — no fixed cap, but stop the moment further questions would just be ceremony. End by echoing back a tight bulleted summary of the resolved spec and asking "ready for /ank:visualise-plan?" — do **not** start planning or coding inside this skill.Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/third-degree@sha256:37a3990b87ade443The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260514.847f61c, 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_w2qxuee4b63cxe2c)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 14, 2026.
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 (1580 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
ananthanandanan/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w2qxuee4b63cxe2c GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ananthanandanan/skills/third-degree GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/37a3990b87ade443f5f3165629afdd42105fc48ea6590adb77bf6e778b89b3ae
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.