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kernighans-law skillA

kernighans-law is agent-read markdown (skill) from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer: Apply Kernighan's Law when reviewing code, discussing code complexity, advising on coding style, or coaching developers on how to write maintainable code. Trigger on phrases like "this clever solution", "I wrote a really elegant piece of code", "look at this one-liner", "why is this code hard to debug?", or any situation involving the trade-off between cleverness and clarity. Also trigger when someone is struggling to debug complex code or asking whether a clever approach is worth the cost..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/kernighans-law@git:20260530.3e17152
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mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/kernighans-law@sha256:1d2e70c19472f99d

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3874 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

GitHub

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wph34nio3ondqzfp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/kernighans-law
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1d2e70c19472f99d0af9e9a7660cf8f39060ea70d47283bb42c8f589c93749be

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