egm-review-loop SKILL.md skillA

egm-review-loop from google/elephant-goldfish-model is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add google/elephant-goldfish-model/egm-review-loop@git:20261103.113a3af

Pins git:20261103.113a3af in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
google/elephant-goldfish-model
Path
distributions/claude/skills/egm-review-loop/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261103.113a3af, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 27, 2026
Size
10,325 bytes
Repository stars
13,713
License
Apache-2.0

Executes the Antagonistic-Review process from the Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) via an automated multi-agent review loop to audit documents against qualitative standards and structural templates, and automatically apply approved fixes. Use when reviewing design docs, READMEs, feature specifications, implementation plans, or verifying document completeness and tone.

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

# Goldfish Review: Loop (Orchestration Driver)

When running in Codex or ChatGPT Work, first read [Codex integration](../../docs/codex.md).
In Claude Code or Cowork, read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/claude.md` first.

## Overview

This skill acts as the central orchestration engine driving the multi-agent
review loop. It coordinates two distinct agent memory models:

*   **The Goldfish (Adversarial Auditors)**: Subagents spawned in isolated,
    fresh context windows to catch unstated assumptions without historical bias.
*   **The Elephant (Persistent Resolver)**: The primary agent context holding
    institutional knowledge to evaluate findings and apply approved repairs.

The driver manages argument intake, resolves paths for reviewers and standards,
unconditionally re-parses target line ranges before every iteration, spawns
concurrent specialized Goldfish auditors based on configuration, and coordinates
with the Elephant context to resolve findings.

## Delegation

A Goldfish runs in a fresh context with no conversation history. Spawn each
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add google/elephant-goldfish-model/egm-review-loop@sha256:844b174055d32a73

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.113a3af, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Oct 27, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261103.113a3af latest2026-11-03 113a3af 10,325 BA view · diff
git:20261102.244292c2026-11-02 244292c 9,937 BA view · diff
git:20261028.9162c4e2026-10-28 9162c4e 9,770 BA view · diff
git:20261027.e45f6402026-10-27 e45f640 7,810 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 (10325 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

google/elephant-goldfish-model · 13,713 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6c3zqn4nsnb6wj75
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=google/elephant-goldfish-model/egm-review-loop
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/844b174055d32a7394f1096964a289987272109fff531a080fc9c3c9acef26fa

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.

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