ci-speedup SKILL.md skillA
ci-speedup from starslingdev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add starslingdev/skills/ci-speedup@git:20261104.fec2fecPins git:20261104.fec2fec in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- starslingdev/skills
- Path
skills/ci-speedup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261104.fec2fec, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 12, 2026
- Size
- 38,188 bytes
- Repository stars
- 80
- License
- MIT
Audits a repository's GitHub Actions workflows for CI optimization opportunities — missing caches, redundant setup, sleep-based readiness, long test jobs without sharding, full-history checkout, dead env vars, build-cache misconfig, and ~60 more patterns across caching, redundancy, parallelization, conditional execution, trigger scope, and hidden failures. Use when: (1) analyzing a repo's CI for optimization opportunities, (2) producing a prioritized report with measured wall-clock and…
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
# ci-speedup — CI Optimization Audit for GitHub Actions Audits a repository's GitHub Actions workflows against a 96-pattern catalog — 85 **hygiene/data-driven** patterns plus 11 **structural / critical-path** patterns routed from the measured long pole — and produces a **root-cause-analysis** report with measured impact on two axes — developer wall-clock wait and runner-minutes (cloud bill). The report opens with a **Long poles** section — the checks that gate the merge (how often each is the pole across sampled PRs, and a per-step breakdown showing the root-cause step) — then a **Findings** section: each detected inefficiency, ranked by measured impact, presented as a root-cause observation with its evidence. **ci-speedup does NOT prescribe the fix.** Detection + run-history measurement are accurate; *fixes* are where a generic tool goes wrong (no file intent, real logs, or load-bearing context). So **every finding ships a ready-to-paste agent prompt** handing the pattern + measured cost to the user's coding agent, which investigates the real runs/logs/intent and reasons out the safe remedy — measured diagnosis from the tool, fix from an agent that sees the code. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add starslingdev/skills/ci-speedup@sha256:29a0aca8b8d90f5eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.fec2fec, 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_6yw76dpzwjy6ywos)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Oct 12, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261104.fec2fec latest | 2026-11-04 | fec2fec | 38,188 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261104.b743943 | 2026-11-04 | b743943 | 38,188 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261104.60461c9 | 2026-11-04 | 60461c9 | 38,073 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261103.2db30eb | 2026-11-03 | 2db30eb | 38,055 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261103.786a3b4 | 2026-11-03 | 786a3b4 | 38,055 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.d53b4c0 | 2026-10-27 | d53b4c0 | 37,659 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.fe6b5c5 | 2026-10-23 | fe6b5c5 | 37,646 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.8f763ba | 2026-10-22 | 8f763ba | 37,665 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.b28e343 | 2026-10-21 | b28e343 | 37,657 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.852ebb2 | 2026-10-12 | 852ebb2 | 37,556 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 (38188 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
starslingdev/skills · 80 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6yw76dpzwjy6ywos GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=starslingdev/skills/ci-speedup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/29a0aca8b8d90f5e755e257768c9bace2cc22b70c531e2d482f4306d1a73651a
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