whiteboard-defense SKILL.md skillA
whiteboard-defense from ovich/swarmstorm is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/whiteboard-defense@git:20261024.7900d5ePins git:20261024.7900d5e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ovich/swarmstorm
- Path
skills/alignment/whiteboard-defense/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261024.7900d5e, committed Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 5,236 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Use when a person wants to be questioned about a system they shipped, says "defend <feature>" or "whiteboard me on <subsystem>", or wants to be ready to explain and defend a design to anyone who pulls them aside. Hard questions on the system and on its stack, open-book. Produces a defense report: the gaps, the reading that closes them, and the architecture leads the questions turned up. Not a review of the code, not a test of the person, not a quiz on names and lines, and it changes nothing in…
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
# Whiteboard defense **The goal is readiness**: anyone can pull the person aside and ask how a system they shipped works and why it is built that way, and they can answer and defend it. The session is the study, the questions are its curriculum, the code is the textbook. It ends when the person says so. **Open-book.** The person goes and reads before answering: the code, the plan, the board, the stack's documentation. What is tested is the model they come back with, not recall. Function names, line numbers and implementation detail are out of scope; where a guarantee holds and why it holds there is in scope. ## Scope **One subsystem or feature per session**, named by the person. Before the first question, read it: its code, its history, and its documents in the data home through the `aiview` skill. Build the answer key from that reading and keep it out of chat. **A resuming session reads the previous report first** and does not re-ask what was defended solid. ## Two tracks **The system.** In the order a sceptical reviewer pushes: 1. **Shape**: the parts and what each owns. 2. **Flow**: one real request or event start to finish, where state lives, who changes it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/whiteboard-defense@sha256:db4019a089625c8fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.7900d5e, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 24, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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Source
ovich/swarmstorm · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yqrsr67q45sjwipl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ovich/swarmstorm/whiteboard-defense GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db4019a089625c8f7dd58c70ad7445c770449744edbdc463190fc46b74f77522
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