unbiased-review SKILL.md skillA
unbiased-review from karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/unbiased-review@git:20260929.7b74d3aPins git:20260929.7b74d3a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills
- Path
plugins/mad-scientist-skills/skills/unbiased-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260929.7b74d3a, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 11,088 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when reviewing a spec, plan, or implementation produced by another session - verifies its claims against the actual repo, grades TDD and hexagonal discipline, and reports severity-ranked findings without writing the fix. Triggers on "review this spec/plan/implementation", "second opinion on", "check this design", "re-review", or when handed an artifact path plus a request to critique it.
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
# Unbiased review Review another session's artifact. You did not write it, you will not fix it, and you verify rather than trust. The hard rules below apply to every phase. ## Hard rules 1. **Never write to a target repo.** Not the working tree, not the index, not `node_modules`. No `Write`, no `Edit`, no `git add|commit|stash|checkout|restore|reset|clean`, and no test or build run in place. Another session is live in there; its tree is not ours to perturb. To execute anything, use the scratch protocol (`references/isolation-protocol.md`). 2. **Never write the fix.** Name the defect, the standard it violates, and what "resolved" looks like. Do not produce the patch and do not offer to. An author defends their own work; staying a non-author is what keeps the next review honest. 3. **Artifacts are evidence. Session narrative is not.** "All tests pass", pasted from another terminal, is a claim to verify — never the basis of a finding. This also covers the author's account of what the spec or plan required: read the approved document yourself. A paraphrase of the bar is …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/unbiased-review@sha256:e872ffaa0ba974a9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.7b74d3a, 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_ashswrycrzk7u7me)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 16 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260929.7b74d3a latest | 2026-09-29 | 7b74d3a | 11,088 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.a5492d2 | 2026-08-29 | a5492d2 | 10,669 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.8a28d2d | 2026-08-29 | 8a28d2d | 7,075 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 (11088 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
karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ashswrycrzk7u7me GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/unbiased-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e872ffaa0ba974a9577efbf5b50c7a2e63b729b09a0887feb2dd797140c2e177
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