test-as-self SKILL.md skillA
test-as-self from jkheadley/instar is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jkheadley/instar/test-as-self@git:20260528.835672cPins git:20260528.835672c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jkheadley/instar
- Path
.claude/skills/test-as-self/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260528.835672c, committed May 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 28, 2026
- Size
- 6,186 bytes
- Repository stars
- 84
- License
- MIT
Deploy the current instar dist into a throwaway agent home and verify the deploy is healthy — clean evidence instead of post-hoc log forensics. Use BEFORE shipping a change that touches the deploy/lifeline/server path; AFTER landing such a change; or to reproduce a crash observed in the wild.
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
# /test-as-self — Throwaway-Deploy Harness (Part 2.1) > Spec: `docs/specs/SELF-PROPAGATION-HARNESS-SPEC.md` + the Track F section of `docs/specs/MULTI-MACHINE-BOOTSTRAP-ROBUSTNESS-SPEC.md`. Part 1 (the structural poll-ownership lease) ships alongside. Part 2.1 folded the manual recipe below into a single command — use that first; the manual recipe is the fallback for fine-grained control. ## The one-button path (Part 2.1 — use this first) ```bash instar test-as-self --no-roundtrip # deploy + verify only (no bot) instar test-as-self --bot-token <secret-drop-id> # + a real Telegram round-trip instar test-as-self --keep # leave it running for inspection ``` The command runs the seven gated steps automatically (bot-acquire via Secret Drop / target-prep with Bob+canonical-home guards / dist-deploy / process-start + wait for /health + lease / Telegram-Bot-HTTP-API round-trip / `verify.mjs` / signal-safe teardown) and emits a single JSON report; exit 0 = all PASS. Structural guards make it impossible to target your real agent home or Bob, and it refuses a raw bot token on the command line (Secret Drop only). The round-trip uses the… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jkheadley/instar/test-as-self@sha256:f2757c7edd08f210The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260528.835672c, 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 2 versions of this file, all committed on May 28, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260528.835672c latest | 2026-05-28 | 835672c | 6,186 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260528.0347862 | 2026-05-28 | 0347862 | 5,177 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 (6186 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
jkheadley/instar · 84 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cmrpd7pdhri45alu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jkheadley/instar/test-as-self GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f2757c7edd08f2104e995c688ebb27ed294c6ed883639faedd399d98218d1c3f
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.