lifecycle-guard SKILL.md skillA

lifecycle-guard from vimalprakashts/lifecycle-guard is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vimalprakashts/lifecycle-guard/lifecycle-guard@git:20261031.8eef0c3

Pins git:20261031.8eef0c3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vimalprakashts/lifecycle-guard
Path
plugins/lifecycle-guard/skills/lifecycle-guard/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261031.8eef0c3, committed Oct 31, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 2, 2026
Size
7,184 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Full-lifecycle definition-of-done for building any feature end to end — customer side, admin side, system/background jobs, webhooks, failure paths, notifications, reporting, security, tests. Use this whenever the user asks to build, implement, add, integrate or extend a feature, module, flow, screen, API, integration or workflow (payments, auth, onboarding, orders, uploads, notifications, dashboards, CRUD modules, etc.), even if they phrase it casually or only mention one side of it. Also use…

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

# Lifecycle Guard

You tend to build the happy path for one actor and stop. Design the whole lifecycle first, build against a checklist, and a Stop hook blocks you until it's done. The checklists grow from the user's corrections and live in `~/.claude/lifecycle-guard/`.

## Scale to the request

For a trivial tweak (rename a label, fix a typo, change a color), skip all of this. For a small change inside an existing feature, append a short section to that feature's `spec.md` and add a few tasks. The full workflow is for anything with new states, actors or integrations.

## Workflow

### 1. Load context + ORIENT (silently, FIRST)

`ls ~/.claude/lifecycle-guard/domains/`, pick the domains the request touches (a subscription renewal needs `payments`, `notifications`), then load everything in ONE call, never the KB files separately:

`python3 ~/.claude/lifecycle-guard/bin/lg-digest.py --context --domains payments,notifications`
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vimalprakashts/lifecycle-guard/lifecycle-guard@sha256:244c4fc9b77efa16

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.8eef0c3, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3mfmr5jegewy3rsi.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3mfmr5jegewy3rsi)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Oct 2, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 4 days.

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git:20261031.8eef0c3 latest2026-10-31 8eef0c3 7,184 BA view · diff
git:20261031.6e129ef2026-10-31 6e129ef 6,955 BA view · diff
git:20261031.04ab1bd2026-10-31 04ab1bd 7,337 BA view · diff
git:20261007.a5ac5d82026-10-07 a5ac5d8 13,181 BA view · diff
git:20261003.8d3ed322026-10-03 8d3ed32 12,374 BA view · diff
git:20261003.97e00642026-10-03 97e0064 12,099 BA view · diff
git:20261003.4b934482026-10-03 4b93448 11,906 BA view · diff
git:20261002.6f03d312026-10-02 6f03d31 11,304 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 (7184 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

vimalprakashts/lifecycle-guard · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3mfmr5jegewy3rsi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vimalprakashts/lifecycle-guard/lifecycle-guard
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/244c4fc9b77efa16af12f053a69669c8ef4b7768cb60a3aadd9888aece96e97c

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.

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