harden-artifact SKILL.md skillA

harden-artifact from eai-org/agent-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add eai-org/agent-toolkit/harden-artifact@v0.6

Pins v0.6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
eai-org/agent-toolkit
Path
skills/harden-artifact/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v0.6, committed Nov 2, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 3, 2026
Size
12,469 bytes
Repository stars
82
License
MIT

Harden a REQUIREMENTS or PLAN document against its ticket and the code before the next phase picks it up.

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

# Harden artifact

Make a `.REQUIREMENTS.md` or `.PLAN.md` — the **artifact** — safe to hand to the next phase:
every deviation from its ticket deliberate, explained and correct; every claim true; nothing
blocking the session that picks it up. A fresh-context reviewer hunts, the session challenges
each finding, and only what survives changes the artifact — which **must never end worse than it
started**.

A session that wrote the artifact cannot judge findings on it: say so and propose a fresh session
before continuing.

## Resolve the sources

- **Artifact** — the file the invocation names; ambiguous or neither kind → ask. A plan — the
  artifact or one of the same base — with a ticked task is already being built, past where
  hardening belongs → say so and ask before going on.
- **Ticket** — the document the artifact was refined from, found by file name: the artifact's
  suffix replaced by `.TICKET` (`FOO.PLAN.md` → `FOO.TICKET.md`), or, when the stem names another
  source, that file (`FOO.PR-REVIEW.REQUIREMENTS.md` → `FOO.PR-REVIEW.md`). A `.TICKET.md` is
  taken at its latest version: with `<base>` the artifact's base stripped of any trailing `-vN`,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add eai-org/agent-toolkit/harden-artifact@sha256:d99a1a475b304dd5

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.6, 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_cpi4kt6r4h4ifbdk.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cpi4kt6r4h4ifbdk)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 6 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.6 latest2026-11-02 b99154d 12,469 BA view · diff
v0.52026-10-24 eda9b10 12,225 BA view · diff
v0.42026-10-22 2c245ca 12,389 BA view · diff
v0.32026-10-21 aafab75 11,027 BA view · diff
v0.22026-10-12 75fa00f 10,460 BA view · diff
v0.12026-10-03 dc06348 10,460 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 (12469 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

eai-org/agent-toolkit · 82 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cpi4kt6r4h4ifbdk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eai-org/agent-toolkit/harden-artifact
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d99a1a475b304dd5b2e9152176b44f9f2d195f74ee8b22f052b303b574dbfdf4

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