debt-closure-discipline SKILL.md skillA
debt-closure-discipline from annatchijova/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add annatchijova/skills/debt-closure-discipline@git:20261001.12da3ccPins git:20261001.12da3cc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- annatchijova/skills
- Path
debt-closure-discipline/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261001.12da3cc, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 23, 2026
- Size
- 9,630 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Priority determines resolution order, not permission to accumulate indefinitely — every known issue (bug, inconsistency, TODO, workaround, deferred P3) must terminate in resolved, explicitly rejected with a reason, or documented as an open unresolved constraint, never silently vanish by being written down. Use whenever triaging bugs/findings/technical debt, prioritizing a backlog, closing a task under time pressure, or reviewing whether a TODO/workaround/deferred item has actually been…
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
# Debt Closure Discipline > **Priority determines resolution order, not permission to accumulate > indefinitely.** P0/P1/P2/P3 (or any priority scheme) says *when* something gets worked, in what order. It does not say that the lowest tier may sit forever as an unaddressed, semantically-closed item just because someone wrote it down. This skill governs the second half of that sentence, which most triage processes leave unstated. Composes with the library: - **software-archaeology** — already contains the full mechanism for a module whose accumulated patches have made its intended semantics hard to read: prefer parallel-run over cutover, expand-migrate-contract over in-place mutation, characterization tests before changing behavior, and git log/blame to extract original intent. This skill does not restate that mechanism — it only names the trigger: when a patched module's history obscures its intended behavior for a reader, that's a software-archaeology job, not something this skill will improvise its own version of. - **decision-record-discipline** — "explicitly rejected with a reason" (one of this skill's three terminal states) is that skill's Alternatives- …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add annatchijova/skills/debt-closure-discipline@sha256:ad885fc1925f2c08The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.12da3cc, 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_4txv56ninszqq3zw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 23, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261001.12da3cc latest | 2026-10-01 | 12da3cc | 9,630 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.6a21e83 | 2026-09-23 | 6a21e83 | 9,000 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 (9630 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
annatchijova/skills · 9 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4txv56ninszqq3zw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=annatchijova/skills/debt-closure-discipline GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ad885fc1925f2c08d58e171608ed614ad5c3f359c7893ee5ccf52888b263fe5f
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