pr-hygiene SKILL.md skillA

pr-hygiene from flieber-inc/devcake is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add flieber-inc/devcake/pr-hygiene@git:20260720.fa58fb9

Pins git:20260720.fa58fb9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
flieber-inc/devcake
Path
app/devcake/skills/pr-hygiene/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260720.fa58fb9, committed Jul 20, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 17, 2026
Size
3,348 bytes
Repository stars
29
License
GPL-3.0

Commit and pull-request discipline — one intent per PR, honest scoped commits, reviewable descriptions, no force-push of shared branches, no tooling junk in the tree. Use when committing work, opening or updating a pull/merge request, or writing a PR description. Companion: verification-before-completion before you claim the branch is ready.

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

# PR hygiene

A pull request is a unit of review, not a dumping ground. Optimize for one
thing: a reviewer (human or AI) can verify the change without follow-up
questions you could have answered in the description.

## Scope

- **One PR = one intent.** Bug fix plus unrelated refactor → split. Mixed
  intent gets worse reviews of both halves.
- **Never widen scope mid-branch.** Unrelated problems go under “Out of scope
  / follow-ups,” not into this diff.
- **No drive-by edits** (formatting churn, renames, comment rewrites in files
  you did not otherwise touch) unless that *was* the task.

## Commits

- Commit only work that is complete enough to stand as a checkpoint you would
  be comfortable explaining. Prefer logical commits over a single megadump when
  the history helps review; never use commits as a panic save of broken state
  you intend to leave behind.
- **Message:** imperative summary under ~72 chars stating the change and, where
  it fits, the why. Body only for what the diff cannot say: constraints,
  rejected alternatives, migration notes.
- Never overstate (“fix all flaky tests”) or hide runtime changes under a
  “docs” subject.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add flieber-inc/devcake/pr-hygiene@sha256:61f8127ad4378e5d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.fa58fb9, 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_3wopjfpal6eq5r33.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3wopjfpal6eq5r33)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Jul 20, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260720.fa58fb9 latest2026-07-20 fa58fb9 3,348 BA view · diff
git:20260717.70feb232026-07-17 70feb23 2,762 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 (3348 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

flieber-inc/devcake · 29 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3wopjfpal6eq5r33
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=flieber-inc/devcake/pr-hygiene
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/61f8127ad4378e5dfa5d56097cef276ec2b837877ab1fad62ec86fc9647684d8

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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