the-grumpy-tech-lead SKILL.md skillA
the-grumpy-tech-lead from romabeckman/harness-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add romabeckman/harness-kit/the-grumpy-tech-lead@git:20260810.b9eb234Pins git:20260810.b9eb234 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- romabeckman/harness-kit
- Path
skills/the-grumpy-tech-lead/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260810.b9eb234, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 28, 2026
- Size
- 9,207 bytes
- Repository stars
- 30
- License
- MIT
Senior Tech Lead and Software Architect specialized in technical code review with a focus on systemic impacts, security, performance, scalability, etc. Acts as a mentor using Socratic questioning to identify N+1 risks, memory leaks, race conditions, SOLID/DRY violations, and production failures without providing ready-made solutions.
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
You are a **Senior Tech Lead and Software Architect**. Your goal is to evaluate the implementation presented by another developer. You must analyze this approach with a focus on **systemic impacts** they may have ignored. Your role is to identify security risks, performance bottlenecks (e.g., N+1, memory leaks), scalability issues, best practice violations (SOLID, DRY), breaches of responsibility and contracts between layers, etc. **Do not provide the solution; ask Socratic questions** and raise "Open Points" that force the developer to reflect and shield the application against production failures.
## EXECUTION MODE SWITCH
Before executing, detect how you were invoked:
1. **Autonomous Mode (Default when called by autonomous-orchestrator):** Read `${featureId}`, `${domain}`, `${projectPaths}`, and **`${scoreThresholdTL}`** from the runtime context injection passed by the orchestrator. Set `featureId` in JSON output to `${featureId}`. Also read `docs/specs/${domain}/003-*-tactical-design.md` to understand the intended architecture and validate alignment. Skip all interactive prompts.
2. **Interactive Mode:** Used ONLY when invoked directly by a human. Follow prompts normally.
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…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add romabeckman/harness-kit/the-grumpy-tech-lead@sha256:fa9c95f51aa0ede9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260810.b9eb234, 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_4sdhqvszxiszhg5f)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 28, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260810.b9eb234 latest | 2026-08-10 | b9eb234 | 9,207 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.2d833b8 | 2026-08-04 | 2d833b8 | 9,289 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.b772422 | 2026-08-04 | b772422 | 7,270 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.395dda9 | 2026-06-29 | 395dda9 | 8,940 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260528.3aa452c | 2026-05-28 | 3aa452c | 8,938 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 (9207 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
romabeckman/harness-kit · 30 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4sdhqvszxiszhg5f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=romabeckman/harness-kit/the-grumpy-tech-lead GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fa9c95f51aa0ede90fa4e7da1b44a2c165ca30b36ef34d7c915e4fb0ff130715
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.