contrarian-question SKILL.md skillA
contrarian-question from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/contrarian-question@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
contrarian-question/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 21,257 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: user says 'contrarian question,' 'the Thiel question,' 'what important truth do very few people agree with you on,' 'is this actually contrarian,' or 'what valuable company is nobody building'; user is drafting or stress-testing a startup thesis, pitch 'secret,' or investment view that claims to be non-consensus; user is preparing for an interview or pitch where they must defend an unpopular claim; user suspects their bold-sounding claim is really consensus in edgy clothing. Do…
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 Contrarian Question
## Overview
Peter Thiel opens *Zero to One* (2014) with an interview question he says he asks constantly: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Its business translation asks which valuable company nobody is building. The question looks easy and is brutally hard, because a good answer must clear **two gates at once**: it must be genuinely **non-consensus** — most smart, informed people would actually disagree with it — and it must be **defensible** — you can argue it with evidence and mechanism, not with attitude, vibes, or courage-as-argument. Almost every answer fails one gate: either it restates consensus in edgy clothing ("our education system is broken" — everyone agrees), or it is contrarian-but-wrong (unpopular *and* unsupported, which is just being wrong with confidence).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/contrarian-question@sha256:aed1aa9828c9fd76The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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_zfvtpmrcgdet43as)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 21,257 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 21,257 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 21,257 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 21,183 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 (21257 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zfvtpmrcgdet43as GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/contrarian-question GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aed1aa9828c9fd76bddc868c6d4f4b56c578147254455089049469098c73ead0
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