ethos-orchestrate SKILL.md skillA
ethos-orchestrate from nvidia/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nvidia/skills/ethos-orchestrate@git:20261025.3aecfe9Pins git:20261025.3aecfe9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nvidia/skills
- Path
skills/ethos-orchestrate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261025.3aecfe9, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 15, 2026
- Size
- 9,859 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,871
- License
- Apache-2.0
Entry point for an AI agent's ETHOS.md: a durable snapshot of what the agent is for, what it must not do, and what success looks like. Routes a request to explore and capture intent (ethos-explore), or write or edit the file (ethos-write). Owns the standard every ethos sub-flow follows. Use when the user asks "help me write an ETHOS.md", "does my agent have an ETHOS.md?", "update my agent's ETHOS.md", or when you need to pick between the ethos sub-flows.
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
<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved. --> <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 --> # Ethos orchestrate ## Purpose Help a developer create and maintain their agent's `ETHOS.md`. Route each request to the narrow sub-flow that owns it, and carry what is already known into that sub-flow so the user is never asked twice. ## Continue from prior context When a user or another workflow supplies an earlier Ethos conversation, reuse the selected repository, agent, file location, and requested operation. Skip the repeated opening and completed questions. Check that prior findings and answers still apply to this agent; distinguish source evidence from explicit user replies, retaining where each answer came from. Without usable prior context, use the standalone entry below. Resume the earliest unfinished work. Missing or conflicting intent goes to ethos-explore; completed intent goes to draft review or ethos-write as needed. Before writing, recover the exact accepted draft and the user's confirmation. If either is unavailable or the draft changed, review the draft again while …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nvidia/skills/ethos-orchestrate@sha256:3500d7a60bc70677The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.3aecfe9, 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_yjhcm7immt4vfj6w)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261025.3aecfe9 latest | 2026-10-25 | 3aecfe9 | 9,859 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.675de2f | 2026-10-15 | 675de2f | 8,733 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 (9859 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
nvidia/skills · 3,871 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yjhcm7immt4vfj6w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia/skills/ethos-orchestrate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3500d7a60bc70677fd95240550c0a58075fe4e3d125eb3654a2519d82d78d453
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.