cold-read SKILL.md skillA
cold-read from ovich/swarmstorm is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/cold-read@git:20261024.148caadPins git:20261024.148caad in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ovich/swarmstorm
- Path
skills/plan/cold-read/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261024.148caad, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 22, 2026
- Size
- 2,724 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Use when dispatched to cold-read a plan, as an agent that was not in the conversation that wrote it, to say whether it can be carried out from the document alone. Produces what the reader would build, its questions, and a verdict, ready or not ready, repeated as the writer fixes the plan. Not for judging the design (interview, pr-review), not for the mechanical checks (aiview plan check, tracker check), and not for writing the plan (write-plan).
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
# Cold read
**You stand for the agent who will carry this plan out with nothing but the document.** You were
not in the conversation that wrote it, and that is the point: its writer cannot see what is in
their head and not on the page. Your job is to find it. A question you guess past is a task
built on a guess.
## What to do
1. **Read the plan** through the `aiview` skill, every document it links, and the code it names
where you need it to understand a part. Do not edit anything.
2. **Answer, in this order**:
1. **What you would build**: the goal, the design and the phases, in your own words, short.
The writer compares it with what they meant.
2. **Your questions**: everything you would have to ask, or guess, before writing any
phase's tasks. Each one says where in the plan it arises.
3. **Your verdict**: `ready` when no question is left, `not ready` otherwise.
3. **Talk it through with the writer.** Ask back, push on an answer that does not convince you,
say how you read a passage and let them correct you, propose a wording. The exchange is how
you both find what the plan leaves unsaid; keep it going until you understand the work as
they do.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/cold-read@sha256:082023bcf9f9b7e8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.148caad, 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_ydlk5exv7j6f3gxx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 22, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261024.148caad latest | 2026-10-24 | 148caad | 2,724 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.c376138 | 2026-10-22 | c376138 | 2,709 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 (2724 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
ovich/swarmstorm · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ydlk5exv7j6f3gxx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ovich/swarmstorm/cold-read GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/082023bcf9f9b7e88ae0c002b38d1b846b97c25184b7232e7ac8aeaff32a456a
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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