maw-reason SKILL.md skillA
maw-reason from pockerhead/maw is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pockerhead/maw/maw-reason@git:20261003.136b1b9Pins git:20261003.136b1b9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pockerhead/maw
- Path
skills/maw-reason/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261003.136b1b9, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 27,023 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Expensive, human-invoked adversarial deliberation over a QUESTION (not a task). Runs a five-role chain — premise check, generator, compressor, attacker, synthesizer — as real isolated spawns, and returns a synthesis with an explicit disagreement ledger and what-would-change-my-mind. Use when the cost of being wrong is high and genuine uncertainty exists: architecture forks, irreversible migrations, "should we X or Y" with real stakes. Do NOT use for lookups, trivia, or questions a single…
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
# MAW Reason — adversarial deliberation as a chain, not a performance This skill answers a **question**. It does not create tasks, branches, worktrees, or commits, and it never moves anything on the task board. ## The one invariant that makes this worth its cost **The calling session must not author the chain's prompts.** The caller has an opinion. It formed one the moment it read the question. If the same agent writes the question, picks which facts are "relevant", and composes the generator prompt, then every downstream role inherits the caller's frame and the chain degenerates into an expensive way to agree with yourself. The review that gated this design named it the blocking defect: the sealer already knows the sealed value and controls the only channel. So the work is split across a trust boundary: - **The calling session (you, right now)** does exactly four things: capture the human's input verbatim into files, resolve profiles, spawn the coordinator, relay the result. It writes no role prompt and reads no role artifact until the synthesis exists. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pockerhead/maw/maw-reason@sha256:243d83e6acf707fbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.136b1b9, 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_wkvgqy42oqfyqn7r)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261003.136b1b9 latest | 2026-10-03 | 136b1b9 | 27,023 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.2f153d2 | 2026-07-28 | 2f153d2 | 27,023 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.33947e9 | 2026-07-28 | 33947e9 | 25,812 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.d1a87e8 | 2026-07-28 | d1a87e8 | 24,750 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.bb1b872 | 2026-07-28 | bb1b872 | 23,596 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.6aa56a7 | 2026-07-28 | 6aa56a7 | 22,967 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 (27023 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
pockerhead/maw · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wkvgqy42oqfyqn7r GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pockerhead/maw/maw-reason GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/243d83e6acf707fb19b43ef8c681438f619114e1584a0f3ea2ef1d3ecfdc355c
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.