kitaru-investigation SKILL.md skillA

kitaru-investigation from zenml-io/kitaru-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add zenml-io/kitaru-skills/kitaru-investigation@git:20261030.d38c791

Pins git:20261030.d38c791 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
zenml-io/kitaru-skills
Path
skills/kitaru-investigation/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261030.d38c791, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 25, 2026
Size
26,875 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
Apache-2.0

Guide users from their own agent code or recorded traces through Kitaru setup, session import or recording, human review, an accepted behavior, a versioned cohort, and evaluator selection, then hand one bounded change to the replay-experiment skill. Use when a user wants to connect or inspect an existing agent, import real traces from files or provider APIs, follow up on a post-import insight, investigate a known bad or surprising session, discover recurring failure modes, learn the…

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

# Kitaru investigation

Treat this skill as Kitaru's evidence-led front door for real agents and traces.
Guide one continuous journey from the evidence the user has to a reviewed
behavior and, when they want to test a change, the
`kitaru-replay-experiment` skill.

## Core contract

- Treat the human as the judge. Select, summarize, organize, and compile
  evidence; never turn an agent suggestion into a human label.
- Preserve durable Kitaru state. Re-read existing objects before creating
  replacements, and carry exact agent, import, insight, session, investigation,
  investigation-session, annotation, cohort-version, evaluator, and
  evaluator-version identifiers plus evaluator agent scope forward.
- Separate observed behavior from desired behavior. A trace records what
  happened, not what should have happened or whether the external outcome was
  correct.
- Distinguish agent behavior, external dependency behavior, product purpose,
  and independent outcome evidence.
- Use open observations before proposing a taxonomy. Deterministic signals may
  select sessions; they do not judge them.
- Explain remote writes and paid or live execution before running them. Ask for
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add zenml-io/kitaru-skills/kitaru-investigation@sha256:3c22c6e007da4630

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.d38c791, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 13 days.

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git:20261030.d38c791 latest2026-10-30 d38c791 26,875 BA view · diff
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git:20260910.8a51df12026-09-10 8a51df1 25,618 BA view · diff
git:20260902.d9aba702026-09-02 d9aba70 23,874 BA view · diff
git:20260825.cf46ae32026-08-25 cf46ae3 23,411 BA view · diff
git:20260825.ed9c6c32026-08-25 ed9c6c3 23,376 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 (26875 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

zenml-io/kitaru-skills · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yiu7sbyphpziswek
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=zenml-io/kitaru-skills/kitaru-investigation
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3c22c6e007da4630eeef21ec163e2b797f5f3f33f307340cc27e6350af88a874

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