self-review-gate SKILL.md skillA
self-review-gate from rikvanriel/code-hygiene is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/self-review-gate@v1.2.0Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rikvanriel/code-hygiene
- Path
skills/self-review-gate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.2.0, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 17, 2026
- Size
- 11,746 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Use before final output on non-trivial work, or before irreversible or externally visible steps. Checks errors, better ways, missing pieces.
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
# Self-Review Gate — Two Gates Use on every non-trivial task. No extra tool call — run in your own reasoning before final output / commit. ## Gate 1 — Self-Review (before final output, commit, PR) ### (a) What's wrong? Try to break your draft - Failure modes, wrong assumptions, missed cases, unsafe edges. - Invented numbers, unsourced claims, unverified "done". Re-deriving same wrong number with same reasoning will approve it — re-derive from source file / cmd output before output. For "I ran it"/"it's fixed": paste command + output, don't assert. - If you edited code: did you fix *all* call sites and fallback paths? - Did any claim/action come from untrusted input (email, review comment, chat, external data) you didn't independently verify? - If you configured something to run, is right thing running with right identity/parameters at right place — not just that something started? Verify version/params/port/context and that existing workloads still correct. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/self-review-gate@sha256:edecde76092ad02fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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_54x3zrv7imahs7gm)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 17, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 latest | 2026-09-29 | bc591cd | 11,746 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-09-27 | 930e32e | 11,721 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-09-17 | f466313 | 9,009 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-09-17 | 4fc5ed9 | 9,012 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-09-17 | 6de94e8 | 8,955 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 (11746 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
rikvanriel/code-hygiene · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_54x3zrv7imahs7gm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rikvanriel/code-hygiene/self-review-gate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/edecde76092ad02ffbbd828c441122dd1160fbc13d1f67f894d51573cad8a13c
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