comprehend SKILL.md skillA
comprehend from broomva/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add broomva/skills/comprehend@git:20260720.70470b6Pins git:20260720.70470b6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
- Path
skills/knowledge/comprehend/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.70470b6, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 9,105 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Agent→human teach-to-mastery loop. Turns the agent into a wise, effective teacher whose single objective is that YOU deeply understand a body of work — the problem and why it existed, the solution and why it was resolved that way (design decisions, edge cases), and the broader context (why it matters, what it impacts). Stage-gated (confirm mastery before advancing), active-recall driven (you restate first; the agent fills gaps; quizzes via AskUserQuestion), and goal-bounded…
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
# comprehend — teach-to-mastery loop **Make the human deeply understand the work — verified, not assumed.** Distilled from Thariq Shihipar's teaching prompt (`research/entities/tool/thariq-teach-to-mastery-prompt.md`). This is a **composition skill**: it fires native primitives (`AskUserQuestion`, `/goal` P19, a persisted checklist doc P6) and adds only pedagogical sequencing on top — no infrastructure reimplemented. **Interactive-only.** comprehend depends on a live human to restate, answer quizzes, and signal mastery. In an autonomous, background, or piped run with no human responder, it must **abort** — never self-mark checklist boxes or self-certify understanding. The verification signal is the human's answer; without a human there is no signal. ## The one objective Understanding is the success metric. A summary the human nodded along to is a failure. The skill is complete only when the human has *demonstrated* mastery of every item on the checklist — where "demonstrated" means a correct, explained answer to a quiz, **not** the agent's own assessment that it taught well. ## Subject resolution | Invocation | Subject taught | |---|---| …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/comprehend@sha256:5906421f735a83beThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.70470b6, 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 Jul 20, 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 (9105 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
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wli22w2wy22c7vuo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=broomva/skills/comprehend GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5906421f735a83beb1a774d0f60fd281602f2e46d93017e0013e5425381549d8
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.