the-method SKILL.md skillB

the-method from jasisz/aver is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add jasisz/aver/the-method@git:20260924.e56826b

Pins git:20260924.e56826b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: jasisz/aver
Path: .claude/skills/the-method/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 4
Latest version: git:20260924.e56826b, committed Sep 24, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 15, 2026
Size: 6,913 bytes
Repository stars: 66
License: MIT

The Method — close an OPEN Aver proof law by having an agent propose auxiliary helper lemmas, test them with `aver proof --discover`/`--check`, and refine until the Lean kernel / Z3 certifies the law. Works on any Aver project; the agent proposes, the judge decides.

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

# The Method

A reusable loop for closing an OPEN Aver `verify ... law` in **any** Aver project. An agent
PROPOSES auxiliary helper lemmas, `aver` TESTS them, and the Lean kernel / Z3 JUDGES whether the
target law now closes — looping until it closes or a budget runs out. The LLM proposer is the only
unbounded source of new lemmas; the judge keeps it sound.

## When to use
- A `verify ... law` is open in Lean.
- A goal that needs an auxiliary lemma the auto-prover can't find on its own (a missing
  homomorphism / associativity / distributivity / an equation relating subterms of the goal).

## Pre-check — run BEFORE spending tokens (the frontier is predictable)

The Method closes CONTENT gaps: a missing TRUE STATEMENT expressible in the law surface. It is
measurably the wrong hammer for FORM gaps (engine/executor procedures) — a past probe burned
~1.3M tokens on goals that were never content-shaped. Classify first:

0. **Samples first.** If the target (or a proposed helper) is false-on-samples, the STATEMENT is
   wrong — fix the claim or the decomposition; there is nothing to prove yet.
1. **The truth-value test.** Isolate the missing piece and ask: *does it have a truth value?*
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add jasisz/aver/the-method@sha256:c8c9f9b8a1dbafcc

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.e56826b, 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 Jun 15, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026, about one every 34 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260924.e56826b latest	2026-09-24	e56826b	6,913 B	B	view · diff
git:20260702.917841b	2026-07-02	917841b	7,172 B	B	view · diff
git:20260618.54db1ba	2026-06-18	54db1ba	4,968 B	B	view · diff
git:20260615.107484d	2026-06-15	107484d	2,854 B	B	view

Audit of the latest version

B 16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

fail: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6913 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

jasisz/aver · 66 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z4qpa2bxam5j7cnv
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jasisz/aver/the-method
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c8c9f9b8a1dbafccdb622b4a36f5ca467312e185b4af0aea7fbd9587103b7ab8

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