synthesis-promotion-gate SKILL.md skillA

synthesis-promotion-gate from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-promotion-gate@v2.0.0

Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills
Path
skills/synthesis-promotion-gate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v2.0.0, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
3,784 bytes
Repository stars
23
License
Apache-2.0

Scan a built site for configured internal markers (draft notes, placeholders, private comments) before an approved deploy, and refuse on any hit. Use for publication gates, rendered-output inspection, pre-deploy marker scans or build.sh deploy checks.

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

# Synthesis Promotion Gate

Reads the built site the way a reader will see it, before the deploy command may publish it, and stops the deploy when a configured internal marker survived the build.

## Binding rules

1. **A successful build is not a publication-safety signal.** A build shows a renderer accepted its inputs; promotion needs a second judgment over the outgoing files.
2. **The gate is evidence, not permission.** The deploy still needs the principal's approval of that exact command (the v5 deploy guard, R3.2), and a clean scan covers only the markers configured.
3. **Refuse, never warn:** a hit (exit 1), an unusable config, a missing folder or a scan that found no files (exit 2) stops the deploy.
4. **Name the view judged:** `text` (what a reader sees), `headings`, `comments` or `source`. `text` is not all browser-visible text: attributes, code, scripts and styles are left out.
5. **The destination's parser is the arbiter of what a reader sees.** The gate's small HTML reader is held to a corpus that parser produced; when they disagree, add the case to the corpus and fix the reader. The `source` view catches a marker however the page parses.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-promotion-gate@sha256:aaa8ce37c062efae

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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.

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_a3ibqm7px3pjsekp.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a3ibqm7px3pjsekp)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 26, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 8 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v2.0.0 latest2026-10-06 4554f32 3,784 BA view · diff
v2.0.02026-10-06 6aa3c4e 5,389 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-26 a1ba17b 10,258 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-26 2bd583e 9,094 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-26 095893b 7,889 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-26 04da863 7,778 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 (3784 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

synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a3ibqm7px3pjsekp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-promotion-gate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aaa8ce37c062efae335d495266c8f62a95530ef6e00e4ca9a41f022590c84d6c

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