five-hard SKILL.md skillA
five-hard from tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/five-hard@git:20261007.cd6c208Pins git:20261007.cd6c208 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
- Path
skills/five-hard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261007.cd6c208, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 14, 2026
- Size
- 3,716 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Have the second brain ask the owner five hard questions about their own long-held beliefs and codex entries that have not been revisited, so assumptions stop fossilizing. Monthly or on demand. Triggers: "/five-hard", "challenge my beliefs", "pressure-test my views".
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
# /five-hard — five hard questions > 🧒 When reporting to a non-technical operator, end with a child-simple "In plain words" recap in their language. **Why:** the identity layer (`belief-*` + `concept-bible-*`, ~24 notes) is "how I think". That gets dangerous once part of it is wrong and nobody has checked. Here the brain itself starts the pressure-test. ## Run `python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/five_hard_pick.py"` -> the 5 most stagnant notes (oldest mtime) -> `$IMPORTS_ROOT/_five_hard_pick.json`. Override: env `FIVE_HARD_N=7`. ## The questions (top-model quality — identity synthesis, not grunt work) Read each note IN FULL and give ONE hard question per note: ``` N. **[<stem>]** — <the owner's thesis in your own words> Question: <sharp, Socratic, capable of forcing a rethink> Why it is hard: <which counter-fact or trend could flip it> ``` Style: Socratic — not "you are wrong" but "what makes you sure today?"; lean on CONCRETE recent signals; `epistemic-neutrality`; aim at the UNTESTED edge (the "tension / nuance" section), not at the part already reflected on. "The rule still stands" is a valid answer (`bible-as-prompt`). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/five-hard@sha256:65b304e242d47230The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.cd6c208, 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 9 versions of this file, between Aug 14, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20261007.cd6c208 latest | 2026-10-07 | cd6c208 | 3,716 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.853d1df | 2026-10-03 | 853d1df | 3,718 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.a2d662f | 2026-10-03 | a2d662f | 3,713 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-24 | 2784cb2 | 3,340 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.2ec1bf8 | 2026-09-08 | 2ec1bf8 | 3,719 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.76c95ec | 2026-08-14 | 76c95ec | 3,377 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.06fa906 | 2026-08-14 | 06fa906 | 3,893 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.5023d8c | 2026-08-14 | 5023d8c | 3,198 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.44e61cf | 2026-08-14 | 44e61cf | 3,516 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yyfnqgbq3tkpgpd3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/five-hard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/65b304e242d472300aee02ab006889a76dd1ae84661ff6a0ec4c2e20d6dddf27
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.