design-for-review SKILL.md skillA

design-for-review from coder-xieshijie/dev-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/design-for-review@git:20261028.a9422e3

Pins git:20261028.a9422e3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coder-xieshijie/dev-skills
Path
skills/design-for-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261028.a9422e3, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 7, 2026
Size
18,180 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Turns existing requirements, design discussions and technical materials into a self-contained technical review document. Use when a technical design goes to people for review.

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

Turn existing requirements, design discussions and technical materials into a technical design for people to review.

Goal: by reading only this one document, a reviewer can understand why the work is needed, how the design works, what needs to change, and which trade-offs need a decision. The author knows everything the document leaves out, so the author's own reading cannot find where a reviewer gets stuck; step 5 puts fresh readers in front of the draft before the user reads it.

## 1. Gather the basis

Prefer the authoritative sources the user specifies, and keep the requirements, boundaries and design decisions already confirmed.

- Design review: base the document on the confirmed requirements and design discussions, and verify current capabilities and constraints against the code.
- Explaining an implementation: when the user explicitly asks you to present a design that is already implemented, base it on the actual code at the specified version.
- When materials conflict, separate current facts, confirmed decisions and proposals still under discussion, and state the conflict and its impact.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/design-for-review@sha256:c7950c999b85ea07

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.a9422e3, 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 Oct 7, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20261028.a9422e3 latest2026-10-28 a9422e3 18,180 BA view · diff
git:20261028.a019a4f2026-10-28 a019a4f 15,890 BA view · diff
git:20261028.12b05bd2026-10-28 12b05bd 11,922 BA view · diff
git:20261007.72d34192026-10-07 72d3419 5,099 BA view · diff
git:20261007.c41db712026-10-07 c41db71 5,090 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 (18180 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

coder-xieshijie/dev-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3j467fcycwlnywxw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/design-for-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c7950c999b85ea0710120e56a6deb1d89a9f9f617f1407068173a7d07f3ee918

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