discovery SKILL.md skillA
discovery from avelikiy/great_cto is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/discovery@git:20260528.4d681c0Pins git:20260528.4d681c0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- avelikiy/great_cto
- Path
skills/discovery/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260528.4d681c0, committed May 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,121 bytes
- Repository stars
- 105
- License
- MIT
Structured pre-design questioning to surface hidden constraints before any architecture decision is locked in. Forces the architect/auditor/reviewer to enumerate what they DON'T know before proposing.
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
# Discovery — surface hidden constraints first The biggest cause of bad agent output is missing context. Before locking in a decision, enumerate what you don't know and surface it. ## The 7 discovery dimensions For any non-trivial request, walk through these and record findings in the report's "Context" section: ### 1. Who depends on this? - What other services / teams consume the thing you're changing? - Are there public consumers (open API, OSS users)? - Is there a deprecation path if you break compatibility? Grep for: `grep -rE "import.*<your-module>|require.*<your-module>"` in the repo and any sibling repos you have access to. ### 2. What's the scale today, what's it in 6 months? - Current traffic: requests/sec, queries/sec, MB/day, daily-active-users - Storage: rows in main tables, size on disk - Cost: monthly LLM spend, infra spend - 6-month projection: linear? exponential? unknown? If unknown, write: "scale unknown — request from user before proceeding." ### 3. What MUST not change? - Existing API contracts (backward compatibility window) - Database schema columns referenced by reporting / BI - File formats consumed by other tools …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/discovery@sha256:884e4be2dd917298The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260528.4d681c0, 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_xbmji2qkh3ft27sx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and May 28, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260528.4d681c0 latest | 2026-05-28 | 4d681c0 | 4,121 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.ca9e7a0 | 2026-05-14 | ca9e7a0 | 4,106 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 (4121 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
avelikiy/great_cto · 105 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xbmji2qkh3ft27sx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=avelikiy/great_cto/discovery GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/884e4be2dd917298175b969a24f4cca35f61d43f77e8e8246caef5cf3c367416
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.
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