emperor-capture SKILL.md skillA

emperor-capture from arbi-elezi/emperor-time is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/emperor-capture@v0.4.13

Pins v0.4.13 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
skills/emperor-capture/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.4.13, committed Sep 29, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 27, 2026
Size
2,187 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Emperor Time — CAPTURE / Chain Jail. Hunt, adapt, or author a missing skill, then pin, get consent, trial, register. Use when a needed capability is absent from this harness. Never bind an unpinned web skill.

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

# Emperor Capture (Chain Jail wrapper)

1. Read `chains/chain-jail/SKILL.md` → `absence-check.md` first.
2. Hunt / adapt / author per router.
3. **Authoring iron law:** before writing or substantively editing a skill,
   open `chains/chain-jail/authoring-checklist.md` and/or run
   `scripts/emperor author` (HARD-GATE: no skill body without a failing
   baseline). Jumping to prose → `scripts/emperor author --reject-untested`.
4. **Testing-skills companion:** before trial/register of a discipline skill,
   open `chains/chain-jail/testing-skills.md` and/or run
   `scripts/emperor skill-test` (HARD-GATE: combined pressure + watch baseline
   FAIL). Academic-only → `scripts/emperor skill-test --reject-academic-only`.
5. **Persuasion-principles companion:** when wording critical / discipline
   practices, open `chains/chain-jail/persuasion-principles.md` and/or run
   `scripts/emperor persuasion` (HARD-GATE: Authority + Commitment + boost).
   Hedge language → `scripts/emperor persuasion --reject-hedge`.
6. **Skill-discovery (SDO) companion:** when writing YAML `description`,
   open `chains/chain-jail/skill-discovery.md` and/or run
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/emperor-capture@sha256:12cbf612c1a90833

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.4.13, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_xzioz2vcl3dhx3g3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_xzioz2vcl3dhx3g3)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, more than one a day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.4.13 latest2026-09-29 51071e5 2,187 BA view · diff
v0.4.132026-09-27 eae2553 1,980 BA view · diff
v0.4.132026-09-27 0ceca37 1,697 BA view · diff
v0.4.132026-09-27 ce139f6 1,403 BA view · diff
v0.4.132026-09-27 d141955 1,108 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 (2187 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

arbi-elezi/emperor-time · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xzioz2vcl3dhx3g3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arbi-elezi/emperor-time/emperor-capture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/12cbf612c1a908334bed84049f1322bf4540ce0c086ae32e64e19029fa8f47f3

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.

More from arbi-elezi/emperor-time

AGENTS.md AGENTS.md file
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · AGENTS.md
git:20260927.04aa495 · audit A · 3 stars
emperor-time SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · SKILL.md · Emperor Time is a software factory and digital coding archaeologist disguised as a skill. Use when the user throws a…
v0.4.174 · audit A · 3 stars
chain-jail SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · chains/chain-jail/SKILL.md · Emperor Time middle-finger chain — skill capture. Router for absence-check, navigation, hunt, extract-aspect (steal one…
v0.4.13 · audit A · 3 stars
dowsing-chain SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · chains/dowsing-chain/SKILL.md · Emperor Time's ring-finger chain — intuition made procedure. Router for four aspects: task dowsing, system dowsing, lie…
v0.4.1 · audit A · 3 stars
holy-chain SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · chains/holy-chain/SKILL.md · Emperor Time's thumb chain — restoration. Router for four aspects: triage (stop digging, snapshot, bracket the…
v0.2.0 · audit A · 3 stars
judgment-chain SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · chains/judgment-chain/SKILL.md · Emperor Time pinky chain — dogma enforcement. Gates, claim audit, critique, scope-guard, change-rationale…
v0.3.5 · audit A · 3 stars
steal-chain SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · chains/steal-chain/SKILL.md · Emperor Time index-finger chain — borrow other agents. CLI: local CLIs with interactive consent. CI: botified pool…
v0.3.6 · audit A · 3 stars
demo-skill SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · evals/fixtures/jail-pin-and-consent/task-no-consent/.emperor/captured-skills/demo-skill/SKILL.md
git:20260929.51071e5 · audit C · 3 stars
demo-skill SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · evals/fixtures/jail-pin-and-consent/task-ok/.emperor/captured-skills/demo-skill/SKILL.md
git:20260929.51071e5 · audit C · 3 stars
emperor-build SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · skills/emperor-build/SKILL.md · Emperor Time — BUILD. Smallest change that makes the work-order probe pass. Use when implementing, writing code, or…
v0.4.30 · audit A · 3 stars
emperor-dispatch SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · skills/emperor-dispatch/SKILL.md · Emperor Time — DISPATCH / Steal Chain. Consent-first enlistment of local CLIs (Claude Code, Kimi, Codex, Copilot…
v0.4.141 · audit A · 3 stars
emperor-excavate SKILL.md skill
arbi-elezi/emperor-time · skills/emperor-excavate/SKILL.md · Digital coding archaeology. Use when the codebase is lost, ancient, mixed, undocumented, Pascal, assembly, COBOL…
v0.4.35 · audit A · 3 stars

Every file in arbi-elezi/emperor-time

Browse by kind, by grade A, or by owner.