assess-quality SKILL.md skillA

assess-quality from urmzd/dotfiles is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add urmzd/dotfiles/assess-quality@git:20261029.73191d5

Pins git:20261029.73191d5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
urmzd/dotfiles
Path
dot_agents/skills/assess-quality/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261029.73191d5, committed Oct 29, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 15, 2026
Size
11,233 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
Apache-2.0

Foundational quality framework: the five questions (readable, easy to start, expands without bloat, consistent, intentional) every other dev skill is judged against, plus the dual-audience and workshop principles. Use when onboarding to a project, defining a quality bar, setting an assessment checklist, or arbitrating between review-design and write-code. Do NOT use for the design "why" layer (use review-design) or concrete tool/pattern picks (use write-code). For day-to-day…

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

# Code Quality

> **Layering:** Foundational why; `review-design` and `write-code` build on this. Use this skill when defining the quality bar or arbitrating between principles (`review-design`) and operational picks (`write-code`).

## The Workshop Principle

Different writers, same pragma.

Every tool, library, and script should feel like it came from the same workshop. The way Microsoft tools feel consistent, the way Google tools share a coherent design language; our code should have that same unity. A developer who has used one of our CLIs should feel at home in any other. An AI agent that has parsed one project's JSON output should know what to expect from the next.

This is not about aesthetics. Consistency reduces cognitive load for both audiences:
- **Developers** spend less time learning conventions and more time solving problems
- **AI agents** parse structured output, consume skills-as-docs, and navigate codebases via AGENTS.md

Every convention in our skill system (JSON output, color semantics, commit style, file organization) traces back to this principle. If a decision doesn't serve consistency or intentionality, question it.

## The Dual Audience
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add urmzd/dotfiles/assess-quality@sha256:84ceab96e06d0e41

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.73191d5, 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 6 versions of this file, between Apr 15, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 39 days.

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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 (11233 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

urmzd/dotfiles · 5 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dbwwxwjlxwxkx4bm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=urmzd/dotfiles/assess-quality
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/84ceab96e06d0e412b0ed89a563f313681067dd5176d222f122a9bc0865c5a63

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