critical-journey-document SKILL.md skillA

critical-journey-document from yarlson/yarstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/critical-journey-document@git:20261017.2f2e03b

Pins git:20261017.2f2e03b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yarlson/yarstack
Path
plugins/yarstack/skills/critical-journey-document/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261017.2f2e03b, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 18, 2026
Size
2,335 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Create one concise evidence-linked product journey record for one actor pursuing one goal. Use when product behavior needs traceable ownership, acceptance, telemetry, or service-flow documentation for a current decision or delivery gate; not for implemented-system context under docs/context/, which belongs to repo-context-document.

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

# Critical Journey Documentation

Create one canonical record of how one actor reaches one goal, and show which steps the product implements today.

## Workflow

1. Establish what makes the journey critical, and its actor, goal, trigger, scope, owner, and risk. Find the repository's established location for product documentation. If there is none, ask the user where the record goes; do not create a new documentation tree.
2. Read the existing requirements, code, contracts, tests, telemetry, and documentation. Reuse the repository's identifiers and terms.
3. Write separate records for several actors or goals only when each record is useful alone.
4. Document the ordered steps, decisions, state changes, success, meaningful failures, recovery, and ownership. Mark each step as implemented, with a link to the code or test that shows it; specified only, with a link to the requirement; or unknown.
5. Record each unresolved fact as an unknown, with its decision owner and the condition that resolves it. Do not fill it with a guess.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/critical-journey-document@sha256:dcc5cf8f22b84ec8

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.2f2e03b, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 23 days.

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git:20261017.2f2e03b latest2026-10-17 2f2e03b 2,335 BA view · diff
git:20260828.116b6692026-08-28 116b669 1,866 BA view · diff
git:20260718.d92e66e2026-07-18 d92e66e 1,901 BA view · diff
git:20260718.206351f2026-07-18 206351f 1,755 BA view · diff
git:20260718.7cc9d662026-07-18 7cc9d66 2,561 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2335 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

GitHub

yarlson/yarstack · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2bmglncgnllxmyx5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yarlson/yarstack/critical-journey-document
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dcc5cf8f22b84ec820aa19d0346c646f1b082fccba749265978c1f2762ed4d0b

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