review-a-design SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
review-a-design from inkeep/open-knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/review-a-design@git:20261014.2bb8524Pins git:20261014.2bb8524 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- inkeep/open-knowledge-skills
- Path
skills/starter-packs/software-lifecycle/review-a-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261014.2bb8524, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 4, 2026
- Size
- 14,749 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Reviews whether a design is SOUND — solving the right problem, derived from its stated goals and constraints — and emits ranked, evidence-backed findings, not edits. Read when asked to 'review this design', 'is this design sound', 'pressure-test this proposal', 'do a design review', 'does this solve the right problem', 'poke holes in this spec', 'should we build this', or to critique a proposal / spec / ADR / architecture or product decision. Do NOT read when the user wants to AUTHOR one of…
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
# Review a design — is it sound, not just complete The platform `/open-knowledge` skill still governs every markdown operation here (reads via `exec`, writes via `write`/`edit`, links as plain relative markdown, MCP owns in-scope `.md`); this skill layers design-review craft on top of it. **Three reviews are not the same review, and only one is this skill's job.** - **Completeness review** asks: is every section filled in? (Are Drawbacks and Alternatives non-empty?) - **Correctness review** asks: are the individual claims true? (Does the benchmark really say 40ms? Is that API deprecated?) - **Soundness review** asks: *should this be built at all, and is this the design that follows from the stated goals and constraints?* You are doing the third. A proposal can be complete and factually correct and still be the wrong design — solving a symptom, chosen before its goals, engaging only strawman alternatives. Completeness and correctness are cheap to check and someone else's pass. Say this to the user up front if there's any ambiguity about what kind of review they want, then do soundness. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/review-a-design@sha256:df99e49071d8715bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.2bb8524, 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_3df332tbchlkyxkh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 4, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 23 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261014.2bb8524 latest | 2026-10-14 | 2bb8524 | 14,749 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.be5d62e | 2026-08-13 | be5d62e | 14,728 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.99a8b17 | 2026-08-05 | 99a8b17 | 14,761 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.8a506ba | 2026-08-04 | 8a506ba | 14,763 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 (14749 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
inkeep/open-knowledge-skills · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3df332tbchlkyxkh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=inkeep/open-knowledge-skills/review-a-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df99e49071d8715b246aee96462ce0275f0a95f758ac14a7fcc7e1be510e8480
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