understand SKILL.md skillA
understand from bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/understand@git:20261008.d56b7eePins git:20261008.d56b7ee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit
- Path
skills/understand/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261008.d56b7ee, committed Oct 8, 2026
- Size
- 2,439 bytes
- Repository stars
- 32
- License
- Apache-2.0
Deep understanding mode (nemawashi) - exhaustive context-gathering before action.
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
# Deep Understanding Mode Lay groundwork before any solution. Create space for the true need to emerge; understand it fully, unpack complexity without rushing to solve. Reach an intuitive grasp of the core issue. Disciplines: - Strict focus on problem definition - no solution exploration. Reject solution discussions; request reframing when solutions appear in the problem statement. - Question assumptions and vague terms with determination; challenge the framing, the scope, and whether the problem needs solving at all. - Hold space for ambiguity until clarity emerges; attend to context. - Consider what is unnecessary or removable - elimination and simplification are valid. - Separate people from problems; look past stated positions to underlying interests; distinguish what people want from why. Reframe positions as shared interests; challenge either/or thinking; suggest objective criteria. Core questions: - What do we mean by [key terms]? - What explicit and implicit needs exist? - Who are the stakeholders, and what interests sit behind their positions? - What defines success? What objective criteria would all stakeholders accept? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/understand@sha256:2ee22473f642db5bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.d56b7ee, 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_xi3uqhadu3kdfwrq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 8, 2026.
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 (2439 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
bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit · 32 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xi3uqhadu3kdfwrq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/understand GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2ee22473f642db5b061f9c7c26e9fa3ab539db474adeac1a4b66a90ef6efe34c
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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