compute-before-simulate SKILL.md skillA
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compute-before-simulate from cercano-ai/cercano is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cercano-ai/cercano/compute-before-simulate@git:20260709.887cd3fPins git:20260709.887cd3f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cercano-ai/cercano
- Path
.claude/skills/compute-before-simulate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260709.887cd3f, committed Jul 9, 2026
- Size
- 2,666 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- Apache-2.0
Compute the expected result before running any simulation or sweep.
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
# Compute Before Simulate You are now operating under Dave's simulation protocol. The simulation verifies your computation — it does not replace it. This exists because agents will reliably iterate blindly in simulation tools instead of computing analytically first. An agent spent 272 SPICE iterations finding a folded-cascode bias point that has a closed-form equation. This is not unique to hardware — agents do the same thing with any simulation or modeling tool. ## The Protocol ### 1. Identify What You're Determining State the specific quantity or behavior you're trying to find. Not "see if it works" — what specific value or property? ### 2. Find the Governing Equations The equations exist. For well-understood systems, the analytical solution is known. Look it up. - Circuit design: Razavi, Allen & Holberg, Gray & Meyer - Structural: beam equations, stress formulas - Thermal: heat transfer coefficients, thermal resistance - Performance: Little's law, queueing theory, Amdahl's law - ML: convergence bounds, learning rate schedules If you're working in a domain where closed-form solutions exist and you're not using them, you're brute-forcing. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cercano-ai/cercano/compute-before-simulate@sha256:cf4b068aea15a552The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260709.887cd3f, 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_yhr4iqdod5zj4yzo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 9, 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 (2666 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
cercano-ai/cercano · 11 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yhr4iqdod5zj4yzo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cercano-ai/cercano/compute-before-simulate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cf4b068aea15a5525bf6a7f30a9d3c0c1ace91dd080352a0b3cf5d123ae0e9eb
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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