data-loss-gate SKILL.md skillA

data-loss-gate from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/data-loss-gate@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
garrytan/gbrain
Path
plugin-variants/gbrain-coding/skills/data-loss-gate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 24, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
12,712 bytes
Repository stars
31,587
License
MIT

Confirmation gate before any bulk delete, cleanup, or destructive operation that could result in data loss — shell-level (rm -rf, git rm, bulk sed) or brain-level (bulk forget, delete sweeps, purge-deleted, source removal, raw-SQL truncation). Presents a recoverability card and requires an explicit "yes" from the user before proceeding. Routing convention, not an operation-boundary enforcement.

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

# Data Loss Gate — Confirmation Before Destructive Operations

> **Convention:** see [conventions/brain-first.md](../conventions/brain-first.md) —
> inspect the actual target before proposing deletion: `get_backlinks`,
> `gbrain graph <slug>`, `git log` on the underlying files. The confirmation
> card below is only as good as the inspection behind it.
>
> **Convention:** see [_brain-filing-rules.md](../_brain-filing-rules.md) —
> the post-confirmation deletion log files date-keyed under `daily/`.

## What This Is

A gate that fires BEFORE any destructive operation and requires explicit user
confirmation. The agent stops, presents a recoverability card, and waits.

**Scope honesty:** this gate is a routing convention — the harness resolves it
into context when a destructive intent matches, and a well-behaved agent
follows it. It is NOT an operation-boundary enforcement: nothing in the gbrain
runtime mechanically blocks a delete if the skill never loads. (A native
confirm gate at the operation boundary is a filed TODO; until it lands, this
convention is the line of defense.) Some CLI surfaces carry their own flag
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/data-loss-gate@sha256:fe4466c283ed1a27

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_7bdys53icth6zmi3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7bdys53icth6zmi3)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 11 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-10-24 4b26a98 12,712 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-07 a6e081f 11,471 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-07 590bb9a 11,253 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-07 38ae58a 11,470 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-05 6509f9b 11,252 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-04 739e5cc 11,141 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-17 489e277 10,418 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 (12712 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

garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7bdys53icth6zmi3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/data-loss-gate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fe4466c283ed1a27b86c6a8159d9ed59400f683906d05021e7c6c9322f74da7a

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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