gateguard SKILL.md skillA
gateguard from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/gateguard@git:20260906.fca30a4Pins git:20260906.fca30a4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naimkatiman/continuous-improvement
- Path
plugins/continuous-improvement/skills/gateguard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260906.fca30a4, committed Sep 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 7, 2026
- Size
- 16,104 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Enforces Law 1 (Research Before Executing) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline. Fact-forcing gate that blocks Edit/Write/Bash (including MultiEdit) and demands concrete investigation (importers, data schemas, user instruction) before allowing the action. Measurably improves output quality by +2.25 points vs ungated agents.
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
# GateGuard — Fact-Forcing Pre-Action Gate
A runtime PreToolUse hook + skill pair that forces the agent to investigate before editing. Instead of self-evaluation ("are you sure?"), it demands concrete facts. The act of investigation creates awareness that self-evaluation never did.
> **Implementation status:** GateGuard ships as a **runtime PreToolUse hook** at `hooks/gateguard.mjs`, wired as the first PreToolUse entry in the plugin bundle. The hook physically blocks Edit / Write / MultiEdit and every destructive Bash on stdin/stdout JSON, returning `{decision: "block", reason: "..."}` until the agent presents facts and retries with the per-session clearance signal. This skill file is the human-readable spec the hook implements. Originally tracked in [issue #106](https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/issues/106) (closed; landed as PR #108).
## When to Activate
- Working on any codebase where file edits affect multiple modules
- Projects with data files that have specific schemas or date formats
- Teams where AI-generated code must match existing patterns
- Any workflow where the agent tends to guess instead of investigating
## Core Concept
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/gateguard@sha256:8d75b7249b8f3037The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260906.fca30a4, 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_3y7lwgt6vtfzklcl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 7, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260906.fca30a4 latest | 2026-09-06 | fca30a4 | 16,104 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.661d8a1 | 2026-09-06 | 661d8a1 | 14,761 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.3177ce2 | 2026-09-06 | 3177ce2 | 13,952 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.b8ed97c | 2026-07-10 | b8ed97c | 13,357 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260707.79bced6 | 2026-07-07 | 79bced6 | 13,287 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 (16104 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
naimkatiman/continuous-improvement · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3y7lwgt6vtfzklcl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/gateguard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8d75b7249b8f303734a2f0d6697dc1cd665e4de1f278156174b9e8a6ddf93f8e
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.