better-coding skillA
better-coding is agent-read markdown (skill) from ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills: Evaluate minimum-sufficient implementation routes and enforce the selected route for a fixed, authorized outcome. Use after outcome, scope, authority, and acceptance evidence are fixed. Do not choose outcomes, set acceptance, adjudicate governance, grade finished work, design tests alone, conduct security audits, or perform unrelated cleanup..
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What the file says
# Better Coding Use the fewest concepts that satisfy the approved result and its acceptance evidence. Minimize maintenance burden, not raw line count. ## Keep the ownership boundary - `thinking` owns the stage, outcome, scope, evidence, route recommendation, hard stops, and the transition to execution. - `teamwork` owns authority, seats, formal contracts, verdicts, publication, and Done. - This skill owns route comparison, ownership seams, concept control, readability, and implementation verification. If outcome, acceptance evidence, or authority is unresolved, return to its owner. Apply this lens only to the selected route and safe slice. A finished change needs independent review. ## Compare routes before adding code 1. Restate the fixed result and acceptance evidence without reopening them. 2. Inspect current code and reuse candidates. Compare current behavior, configuration, reuse, adaptation, replacement, new code, deletion, documentation, and no-code routes. If the current evidence already passes, make no change. 3. Compare the strongest simpler alternative. Choose a route only when the fixed acceptance evidence can prove it. …
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How to install
mdr add ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/better-coding@git:20260917.1684f08mdr add ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/better-coding@sha256:1d74db93ad42681ePin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Source
ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_y7vcavsodsvum4zr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/better-coding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1d74db93ad42681e91c0f39326740507a9c00267cf550d5f6b4b481391520122
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