strike-the-root SKILL.md skillA
strike-the-root from outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/strike-the-root@git:20260904.2014e73Pins git:20260904.2014e73 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin
- Path
plugins/odin-code/skills/strike-the-root/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260904.2014e73, committed Sep 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 10,806 bytes
- Repository stars
- 40
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a bug, failure, flake, regression, review finding, or ticket needs the core fixed so it cannot recur. Not for greenfield features: use tdd. Not for style-only review or typo-class one-liners.
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
# Strike the root Find the core and make it not break next time. Grill the real core and solve it from first principles, not the outskirts. Be sharp and work for the longer horizon. A bug is evidence about the design that produced it. When the design is wrong, blocking symptoms is unlimited treadmill work: the same fault keeps spawning new bugs no matter how many are fixed. Sharp means acting on evidence in the code, never on speculation. Long horizon means the repair is still right in six months, under the next feature, with the next maintainer. ## Contract | Field | Bound contract | |---|---| | Trigger | A bug, failure, flake, regression, slowness, review finding, or ticket needs root-shape repair, not the nearest patch. | | Authority | Reversible local: writes only named local artifacts (an evidence ledger, tagged instrumentation, the fix, and a regression test); rollback is undo (revert those local writes). No remote mutation. | | Side effect | A confirmed root cause, a root-shape fix, a passing regression test, and a clean tree with all instrumentation removed. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/strike-the-root@sha256:87ac2aab2d142b8aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260904.2014e73, 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 4 versions of this file, between Sep 3, 2026 and Sep 4, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260904.2014e73 latest | 2026-09-04 | 2014e73 | 10,806 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.31c840c | 2026-09-03 | 31c840c | 10,926 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.c54504d | 2026-09-03 | c54504d | 10,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.ac7d02a | 2026-09-03 | ac7d02a | 10,969 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 (10806 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
outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin · 40 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yzkya7krqbgm7mpw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/strike-the-root GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/87ac2aab2d142b8a7fdd353900804eb4053d434792a2164a4486bdb747479f4d
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.