circle-of-competence SKILL.md skillA
circle-of-competence from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/circle-of-competence@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
circle-of-competence/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 8,998 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: user says 'should I enter this market / make this hire / invest in this domain,' 'am I qualified to evaluate this,' 'stay in your lane,' 'stick to what you know,' or is about to make a consequential decision in an unfamiliar domain. Do NOT activate when: the decision is small and explicitly framed as a learning bet; the domain is genuinely frontier for everyone and no one has competence yet. More: deciqai.com/s/circle-of-competence.
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
# Circle of Competence ## Overview Every decision-maker has a domain where judgments are reliable (inside the circle) and one where they are not (outside). The discipline: identify the boundary, act decisively inside it, refuse to act outside it without explicit acknowledgment of elevated uncertainty. Canonical source: Buffett (1996) — "The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital." Composes with [`dunning-kruger`](../dunning-kruger/SKILL.md) (cognitive mechanism the circle counters), [`metacognition`](../metacognition/SKILL.md) (self-monitoring the circle relies on), [`first-principles`](../first-principles/SKILL.md) (only reliable inside the circle), [`opportunity-cost`](../opportunity-cost/SKILL.md) (refusal has a real cost — measure it), [`probabilistic-thinking`](../probabilistic-thinking/SKILL.md) (calibration training establishes the boundary). ## When to Use - Evaluating an investment, acquisition, or partnership in an unfamiliar domain - Deciding whether to enter a new market or product area - A board member or investor is pushing you toward a domain outside your background …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/circle-of-competence@sha256:83e3f05247180538The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 8,998 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 8,998 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 8,998 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 8,998 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 8,998 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 (8998 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wz7rm5abwwewjvd2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/circle-of-competence GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/83e3f05247180538eb8e585929d58fdb5412b3e1fc5215b32620c6fa4ea836d5
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