constitution-lite SKILL.md skillA
constitution-lite from tmusser/ai-engineering-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/constitution-lite@git:20260727.96471d7Pins git:20260727.96471d7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tmusser/ai-engineering-skills
- Path
skills/constitution-lite/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260727.96471d7, committed Jul 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,018 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Define a tiny set of stable, non-negotiable agent authority boundaries for repeated or delegated work without duplicating CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or task specs.
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
# Constitution Lite ## Purpose Record only the durable rules that constrain what an agent may decide or do across multiple tasks. This is an authority boundary, not a project handbook. Project instructions are not constitution rules. Architecture notes, repo layout, commands, coding style, naming conventions, framework choices, and ordinary team preferences belong in native project instructions such as `CLAUDE.md` or `AGENTS.md`. Task-specific requirements belong in `SPEC.md`, `scope-freeze`, or `SHIP.md`. ## When to use Use when repeated, delegated, scheduled, or autonomous work needs a small set of stable constraints that should survive across tasks, such as: - human approval before destructive or external side effects - protected production, data, credential, or customer boundaries - tests or evidence that an agent may not weaken to make work pass - decisions an agent is never authorized to make alone Skip this skill when the need is only project onboarding, commands, architecture, style, a temporary implementation constraint, or one task's acceptance criteria. ## Inputs - Existing `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, or equivalent project instructions if present …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/constitution-lite@sha256:b8ba2475926debe3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.96471d7, 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_yfwqnqpocn4mdppd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026, about one every 37 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260727.96471d7 latest | 2026-07-27 | 96471d7 | 4,018 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260518.0d37b7d | 2026-05-18 | 0d37b7d | 1,376 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.a642d15 | 2026-05-14 | a642d15 | 1,447 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 (4018 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
tmusser/ai-engineering-skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yfwqnqpocn4mdppd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/constitution-lite GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b8ba2475926debe37222467498b59c95adb9998d6f72e8a0641ec2d4ae5dab2c
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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.