ci-speedup SKILL.md skillA

ci-speedup from mblode/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mblode/agent-skills/ci-speedup@git:20261022.d48d166

Pins git:20261022.d48d166 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mblode/agent-skills
Path
skills/ci-speedup/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
13
Latest version
git:20261022.d48d166, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 21, 2026
Size
14,138 bytes
Repository stars
188
License
MIT

Speeds up CI and the merge path: finds where changes wait between push and deploy, then fixes the critical path, check placement, merge queue or post-merge checks with auto-revert, flaky tests, and deploy rate. Use when "CI is slow", "speed up CI", "do we need a merge queue", "main keeps going red", "flaky tests block merges", agents open PRs faster than they merge, or building a self-healing merge loop.

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

# CI Speedup

Find the stage where changes wait between push and deploy, fix that stage with numbers, and write down what changed and when to look again.

- **IS:** measuring where changes wait from push to deploy; a pipeline's critical path; check placement per lane and the required-check set; merge queue sizing or the post-merge design; main-health detection, attribution and revert; the agentic merge loop that reverts, re-lands and repairs without a human; flake policy; deploy throughput; cost per merged change; the ledger.
- **IS NOT:**
  - one PR's red build, conflict or single rerun (`pr-babysitter`)
  - package releases (`autoship`)
  - which checks exist, enforcing a rule, hook wiring, protected paths, or the sandbox rules for an unattended agent job (`codebase-architecture`); this skill owns the merge controller that dispatches those jobs and decides revert, merge and deploy
  - pruning tests (`test-audit`)
  - reviewing a workflow diff (`tidy`)
  - repositories with no pipeline yet (`scaffold-cli`, `scaffold-nextjs`)
  - how many agents to run, or writing the repository's merge-risk policy (this skill reads that policy; it does not author it)

## The Model
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mblode/agent-skills/ci-speedup@sha256:70a7b7047f3f9879

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.d48d166, 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 13 versions of this file, between Sep 21, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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git:20260921.d2ac88b2026-09-21 d2ac88b 9,647 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 (14138 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
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  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

mblode/agent-skills · 188 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cysy3ixz6eeyk6hp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mblode/agent-skills/ci-speedup
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/70a7b7047f3f98790b582f875ad1cb509d0e6b237edc1870093de05238b5ee66

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