usual SKILL.md skillA
usual from pauljump/usual is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pauljump/usual/usual@git:20261001.7bf9245Pins git:20261001.7bf9245 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pauljump/usual
- Path
SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261001.7bf9245, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 13,046 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Learn Usual, analyze past decisions, or build with Usual. Check user-reviewed playbooks before re-investigating a familiar problem. Guide first-time setup from local Codex and Claude Code history, assess what was learned, then carry those choices into coding tasks with autopilot, check-in, or escalation mode and a private decision review.
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
# Usual Usual is a menu of independently useful local tools: **Vibecheck, Choices, Recall, Loops, Pop, and Escape**. Existing decision-memory commands below are Choices; the Usual invocation and database remain compatible. If the user asks for a specific menu item or to find their usual, use [the collection guide](references/collection.md) and [selected-history guide](references/history.md). Do not require history or Choices before using another item. `menu` describes each item; `setup inspect` shows private selected tools, scopes, installation and verification state. For "Find my usual," establish the selected history scope, run `vibecheck scan --source PATH`, read the generated bounded handoff, interpret the cited human evidence with this session model, and import a validated report. Retain exceptions and uncertainty; findings never authorize installation or execution. Help the user select one current in-scope improvement, use it, inspect its receipt, and optionally export an explicitly reviewed safe setup. Public website examples are synthetic; they cannot read the visitor's files or start an agent. The maintained first Loops method is `file-check-v1`; inspect its inputs and …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pauljump/usual/usual@sha256:8f7e4b65327b40e7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.7bf9245, 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_z3nk25vkv7zvyqay)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 9, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261001.7bf9245 latest | 2026-10-01 | 7bf9245 | 13,046 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.7a594e1 | 2026-09-12 | 7a594e1 | 11,735 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.f7df17a | 2026-09-09 | f7df17a | 10,129 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 (13046 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
pauljump/usual · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z3nk25vkv7zvyqay GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pauljump/usual/usual GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8f7e4b65327b40e7ca6fbec46c775b3775c31d9cbb1f947802bdfc00784826b5
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.