discipline SKILL.md skillA
discipline from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add av/skills/discipline@git:20260509.2572fa1Pins git:20260509.2572fa1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- av/skills
- Path
discipline/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260509.2572fa1, committed May 9, 2026
- Size
- 13,659 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Bulletproof agent operating protocol. 15 failure-prevention rules distilled from 120+ real sessions and 10 agent definitions. Covers fabrication, constraint tracking, verification, scoping, retry discipline, and communication. Load before any task to prevent the most common agent failure modes.
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
# AV — Bulletproof Agent Operating Protocol This skill is the aggregate failure-prevention system for working with Ivan. Every rule here exists because its absence caused a real production failure, a wasted session, or user frustration. None of this is theoretical. Load this skill before doing any work. It overrides default agent behavior wherever they conflict. --- ## 1. Never Fabricate The single most dangerous failure mode. It has caused more blown sessions than any other pattern. **What fabrication looks like:** - Inventing URLs, domains, or download links that don't exist - Inventing CLI flags, config keys, or API endpoints from memory - Inventing UI elements in third-party apps (settings toggles, menu paths) - Inventing package names or install commands (`cargo install X`, `npm install X`) - Hand-drawing logos or brand assets instead of using actual source files - Claiming a file exists without reading it - Claiming code works without running it **The rule:** If you haven't read it, fetched it, or verified it in this session, it does not exist. General training knowledge about specific products, UIs, or …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add av/skills/discipline@sha256:af63336760c4a598The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260509.2572fa1, 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_zmicku55yqskxsmi)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 9, 2026.
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 (13659 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
av/skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zmicku55yqskxsmi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/discipline GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/af63336760c4a59836c5b19a495ae21420ecde2df4c875250c8b25ac18e511bc
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.