shift SKILL.md skillA

shift from saadshahd/moo.md is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add saadshahd/moo.md/shift@git:20260817.f04083f

Pins git:20260817.f04083f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
saadshahd/moo.md
Path
hope/skills/shift/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260817.f04083f, committed Aug 17, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 16, 2026
Size
1,644 bytes
Repository stars
38
License
MIT

Restate the problem in a distant domain's terms. Use when a problem circles inside its own vocabulary.

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

Shift only after the home vocabulary has failed more than once — a problem stated once, not yet restated in its own terms, has not circled yet. This runs inside one turn — nothing waits on the user.

1. Pick a distant domain that lives with the same tension daily — distant enough that its words are not synonyms for yours. Prefer the domain that has been paying for this tension longest: its answers are old and tested.
2. Restate the problem entirely in that domain's terms — no mixed vocabulary, every home term replaced.
3. Test the mapping before delivering anything: if each borrowed term lands one-to-one on a home term, the shift bought nothing — a renaming, not movement. Pick a more distant domain and run the restatement and this test once more. If the second mapping is also one-to-one, the problem resists shifting — carry that verdict out as the result instead of a restatement.

Hand back the restatement entirely in the distant domain's terms, with one line on what the borrowed terms expose that the home terms hid. Nothing more rides along: one restatement, one exposure line.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add saadshahd/moo.md/shift@sha256:4ff11c761cb2869e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260817.f04083f, 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 3 versions of this file, between Aug 16, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, more than one a day.

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git:20260817.f04083f latest2026-08-17 f04083f 1,644 BA view · diff
git:20260817.0cc07d92026-08-17 0cc07d9 2,526 BA view · diff
git:20260816.8c2b68d2026-08-16 8c2b68d 2,529 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 (1644 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

saadshahd/moo.md · 38 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ynyu73ebdp3e74kz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=saadshahd/moo.md/shift
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4ff11c761cb2869ef27608705019c3adf3f276d143aac55997acf1e0f6c2b9eb

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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