dowsing-chain SKILL.md skillA
dowsing-chain from arbi-elezi/emperor-time is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/dowsing-chain@v0.4.1Pins v0.4.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arbi-elezi/emperor-time
- Path
chains/dowsing-chain/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.4.1, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 22, 2026
- Size
- 2,594 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Emperor Time's ring-finger chain — intuition made procedure. Router for four aspects: task dowsing, system dowsing, lie detection, and excavate (lost or alien codebases). Use when asked to find work, scan for agents, rule on contradictions, or survey Pascal/ASM/COBOL/ROM trees. Load one aspect file at a time per the Invocation Ritual.
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
# Dowsing Chain — router > *The pendulum doesn't guess. It swings toward what is actually there.* Dowsing looks like intuition from the outside. Inside, it is a disciplined sweep: every candidate task and every detected agent must be backed by observed evidence. **You may not invent work.** A dowsed task with no evidence behind it is a hallucination wearing a pendulum. ## Selection table — read exactly one | Your situation | Aspect file | |---|---| | "Find something worth doing" / vague goal to scope / between tasks with standing self-assign authority / triaging a codebase | `task-dowsing.md` | | Lost / ancient / unmarked tree / Pascal / assembly / COBOL / ROM / floppy image | `excavate.md` | | Building the enlistable-agent roster / "what agents are on this machine?" / pre-Steal-Chain scan / an unknown CLI needs profiling | `system-dowsing.md` | | A source contradicts another (docs vs code, comment vs behavior, agent claim vs observation, memory vs terminal) and you must rule | `lie-detection.md` | Multiple situations at once → run them as separate selections in sequence (excavate often *triggers* lie detection when a comment disagrees with a binary). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/dowsing-chain@sha256:5fd8aeec244df84bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.4.1, 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_xhexpq4pr7ghuejq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 22, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 65 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.4.1 latest | 2026-09-25 | cca0abc | 2,594 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-07-22 | d95b195 | 2,517 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 (2594 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
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xhexpq4pr7ghuejq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arbi-elezi/emperor-time/dowsing-chain GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5fd8aeec244df84bb615ed88c50e72e08d3b912f2914595bd2e1ec9bd3003bf2
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.