vellum-change-review SKILL.md skillA

vellum-change-review from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/vellum-change-review@git:20260521.b4bdd7a

Pins git:20260521.b4bdd7a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vellum-ai/vellum-assistant
Path
.cursor/skills/vellum-change-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260521.b4bdd7a, committed May 21, 2026
Size
2,472 bytes
Repository stars
1,467
License
MIT

Review Vellum Assistant code changes for correctness, repo-specific quality rules, security risks, and missing validation. Use when reviewing diffs, preparing a PR, finishing implementation work, or when the user asks for a code review, quality pass, or pre-merge check in this repository.

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

# Vellum Change Review

## Review Stance

Prioritize bugs, behavioral regressions, security risks, migration gaps, broken package boundaries, and missing tests. Findings come before summaries. Avoid cosmetic feedback unless it affects correctness, maintainability, or user experience.

## Required Checks

1. Inspect the actual diff before judging the change.
2. Identify which packages are affected: `assistant`, `gateway`, `clients`, `cli`, `skills`, `packages`, or `meta`.
3. Check package boundaries:
   - `assistant` must not import from `gateway` by relative path.
   - `gateway` must not import from `assistant` by relative path.
   - `assistant` and `skills` must not import each other directly.
   - Runtime code must not import from `meta`.
4. Check persistence changes:
   - DB schema or data changes need append-only DB migrations.
   - Workspace path, format, or file changes need append-only workspace migrations.
   - Migrations must be idempotent and registered.
5. Check feature flags:
   - New assistant flags must be declared in `meta/feature-flags/feature-flag-registry.json`.
   - Default-disabled or rollout-only features must not ship user-facing release notes.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/vellum-change-review@sha256:633c8aa0d141b7c1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260521.b4bdd7a, 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 1 version of this file, committed on May 21, 2026.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2472 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

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,467 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_77kzcfhxu7o3ghvl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/vellum-change-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/633c8aa0d141b7c191e93858ff5b3f68f1c0f119395a4426f4a03de0ef5aeeff

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