skill-pressure-test SKILL.md skillA

skill-pressure-test from nyldn/claude-octopus is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-pressure-test@git:20260906.89d2d35

Pins git:20260906.89d2d35 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nyldn/claude-octopus
Path
skills/skill-pressure-test/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260906.89d2d35, committed Sep 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 2, 2026
Size
5,650 bytes
Repository stars
4,409
License
MIT

Interrogate a plan, decision, or design one question at a time until it holds — use to stress-test your own thinking before committing to it.

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

> **Host: Codex CLI** — This skill was designed for Claude Code and adapted for Codex.
> Cross-reference commands use installed skill names in Codex rather than `/octo:*` slash commands.
> Use the active Codex shell and subagent tools. Do not claim a provider, model, or host subagent is available until the current session exposes it.
> For host tool equivalents, see `skills/blocks/codex-host-adapter.md`.

# Pressure Test

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or design until you both
reach a shared understanding of it. Walk each branch of the decision tree,
resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time.

This is not brainstorming. `skill-thought-partner` opens a space up and looks for
what might be there; this closes one down and looks for what is wrong with it.
Use this when there is already a position on the table and the risk is that it is
wrong in a way nobody has said out loud.

Adapted from the `grilling` skill in
[mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) (MIT).

## When To Use

- The user has a plan, spec, or design and wants it attacked before they commit.
- A decision keeps getting deferred because its dependencies are tangled.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-pressure-test@sha256:c885f2caf9efc2c5

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260906.89d2d35, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_wusy3e4brhoyd6al.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wusy3e4brhoyd6al)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, about one every 18 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260906.89d2d35 latest2026-09-06 89d2d35 5,650 BA view · diff
git:20260813.14437ae2026-08-13 14437ae 5,120 BA view · diff
git:20260802.542f71c2026-08-02 542f71c 5,089 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (5650 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

nyldn/claude-octopus · 4,409 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wusy3e4brhoyd6al
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-pressure-test
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c885f2caf9efc2c53d622b1de0496cf622605ee6184beb57b853148da20f7aa8

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.

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