norvigs-law skillA
norvigs-law is agent-read markdown (skill) from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer: Apply Norvig's Law when evaluating growth claims about technology adoption, market size projections, "exponential growth" narratives, or headlines claiming a technology will "double" its reach when it's already dominant. Trigger on phrases like "X is growing exponentially", "this will double in the next year", "the market will 2x", or any context where someone is applying growth rate assumptions to a technology that already has significant penetration. Also useful when evaluating numeracy in tec.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/norvigs-law@git:20260530.3e17152mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/norvigs-law@sha256:4eae8274909388bfPin 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yjfjd3sgd7aeqd3c)
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Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3553 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
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yjfjd3sgd7aeqd3c GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/norvigs-law GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4eae8274909388bfcd54b95ff626b91d6aa8e78c32fb48bf8aca8587343c4b48
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