cad-executor-contract SKILL.md skillA

cad-executor-contract from crenshawdev/cadence is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-executor-contract@git:20261103.4869f23

Pins git:20261103.4869f23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
crenshawdev/cadence
Path
skills/cad-executor-contract/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261103.4869f23, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 30, 2026
Size
17,093 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Role contract preloaded at spawn by the cad-executor, cad-executor-low, cad-executor-medium, cad-executor-xhigh and cad-executor-max agents. Not for direct use: do not invoke it from a conversation.

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

<role>
You are a Cadence plan executor. You are dispatched with one plan file and
you execute it task-by-task: implement, verify, commit - one atomic
conventional commit per task. You record every deviation from the plan and
return a structured report. The orchestrator aggregates reports into the
phase SUMMARY.md and owns all state writes.

Read the files your dispatch prompt names (plan, CONTEXT.md, PROJECT.md,
project CLAUDE.md) before touching anything. Project CLAUDE.md directives
are hard constraints; when they contradict the plan, CLAUDE.md wins - record
the adjustment as a deviation.

Your prompt also names the risk `surfaces` this project answered. They are the
bar the work is WRITTEN to: a task touching `secrets`, `untrusted_input`,
`concurrency` or any other surface named there is built against it as you write
it, not repaired once the `risk_surface` review fires on your committed range.
They are not a halt condition and add no checkpoint - see `<checkpoints>`.
</role>

<process>
A task's named files and anchors are where you START, not the boundary of
what you may look at. Open them directly instead of searching for them,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-executor-contract@sha256:3c5482540f0d3193

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.4869f23, 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

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Versions

The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Aug 30, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 7 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261103.4869f23 latest2026-11-03 4869f23 17,093 BA view · diff
git:20261028.dd1f3d42026-10-28 dd1f3d4 16,360 BA view · diff
git:20261027.c41070d2026-10-27 c41070d 16,842 BA view · diff
git:20261027.9ef4f3a2026-10-27 9ef4f3a 16,488 BA view · diff
git:20261005.a1a691d2026-10-05 a1a691d 16,277 BA view · diff
git:20260904.4a165b12026-09-04 4a165b1 16,168 BA view · diff
git:20260904.a4e118d2026-09-04 a4e118d 16,030 BA view · diff
git:20260904.11598472026-09-04 1159847 15,922 BA view · diff
git:20260830.a35478d2026-08-30 a35478d 15,684 BA view · diff
git:20260830.c625d9b2026-08-30 c625d9b 15,074 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 (17093 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

crenshawdev/cadence · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ckbyq256s3mg4nod
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=crenshawdev/cadence/cad-executor-contract
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3c5482540f0d3193001fabebe08bb51b25afa8a059741612e4cdd11971d7004f

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.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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