coupling-map SKILL.md skillA

coupling-map from dayvisonassis/sdd-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add dayvisonassis/sdd-skills/coupling-map@git:20260826.c58bcff

Pins git:20260826.c58bcff in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
dayvisonassis/sdd-skills
Path
skills/coupling-map/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260826.c58bcff, committed Aug 26, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
9,880 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Answers which files to refactor first to reduce systemic risk, by crossing blast radius (how many modules stop working if this one breaks) against size. On first use it asks permission, installs its own tooling and writes a config by reading the project; on every run after that it executes a versioned script and reads only that script's JSON output, never the source tree again. Produces a standalone HTML report with a scatter chart, a ranked queue and structural detectors. Unlike…

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

# Coupling Map

Answers one operational question: **which files should be refactored first to reduce systemic
risk.** A file qualifies when both conditions hold — it does too much, and enough of the system
depends on it that breaking it breaks several other parts.

The output is a standalone HTML report. It is **diagnostic, not a gate**: it fails no build and
blocks no commit.

> References, loaded on demand, all of which travel with this skill:
> `references/config-schema.md` (every field of `arch.config.json`),
> `references/report-contract.md` (the shape of `architecture.json`),
> `references/calibrating-cuts.md` (deriving thresholds for a new codebase),
> `references/rejected-metrics.md` (**read before proposing any metric or axis**).
>
> The full design argument lives in `docs/Skill_Coupling_Map.md` of the **sdd-skills**
> repository, which is not part of an installed copy. Everything needed to run is in the folder
> you are reading.

**The point of the split is cost.** The model inspects the tree exactly once, to write a config
of about thirty lines. From then on it reads a single JSON file. On the codebase this was built
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add dayvisonassis/sdd-skills/coupling-map@sha256:52c346979e2b73a7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.c58bcff, 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 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 26, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260826.c58bcff latest2026-08-26 c58bcff 9,880 BA view · diff
git:20260826.41a65022026-08-26 41a6502 8,738 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 (9880 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

dayvisonassis/sdd-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6pwfyb2nhsfoiwaw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dayvisonassis/sdd-skills/coupling-map
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/52c346979e2b73a745968bf5912cc570a91fc54667f67308a78553dff3d6af24

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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