review-stack SKILL.md skillA

review-stack from edbertchan/catstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/review-stack@git:20261022.d0fb6c4

Pins git:20261022.d0fb6c4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
edbertchan/catstack
Path
product/skills/review-stack/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261022.d0fb6c4, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 22, 2026
Size
9,585 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
none declared

Build a layered code review page for a branch as a published artifact, one review claim per slice in dependency order, and run the comment loop on it (reviewer comments on the page, the agent changes the code, rebuilds, republishes, replies, resolves). Use when asked for a review stack, a code review artifact or page, to rebuild one after fixes, or to answer comments left on one.

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-stack

A review page is a stack of slices, bottom layer first, each shown against the
one below it; the last slice's tree equals the branch tip file for file. Each
slice carries the split-scope block: review claim, lane, safety invariant
(proposed until the user confirms it), rationale, architectural effect,
alternatives, non-goals. Comments left on the page come back to the agent,
which changes the code, rebuilds the same page, republishes it, and answers in
the thread with the commit that did it.

`<skill>` is this skill's folder. All three scripts are standard-library
Python and run against a local git repository.

## 0. Sweep first

Nothing gets stacked on a base that is missing finished work. Run

```bash
python3 <skill>/scripts/left_behind_sweep.py <repo> <target-branch> [--invoker]
```

It lists branches with real patches not in the target (markers, merges, and
commits whose files the target already holds with the same content excluded,
so the build's own slice branches stay quiet and a slice branch from an older
cut is listed), dirty worktrees (scratch merge clones included), and with
`--invoker` the Invoker workflows whose feature branch is not in the target.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/review-stack@sha256:9b019236d9d587c3

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.d0fb6c4, 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_4cq3v3xhqpuxhfjb.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4cq3v3xhqpuxhfjb)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 22, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261022.d0fb6c4 latest2026-10-22 d0fb6c4 9,585 BA view · diff
git:20261022.8711d672026-10-22 8711d67 9,210 BA view · diff
git:20261022.8753c562026-10-22 8753c56 5,086 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 (9585 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

edbertchan/catstack · 6 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4cq3v3xhqpuxhfjb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/review-stack
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9b019236d9d587c3b35916f6afe09430515b6ba6273ee4da644f132fab5a7d3f

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.

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