maintain SKILL.md skillA

maintain from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/maintain@v1.1.0

Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
garrytan/gbrain
Path
plugin-variants/gbrain-coding/skills/maintain/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
15
Latest version
v1.1.0, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
30,543 bytes
Repository stars
31,587
License
MIT

Brain health checks: back-link enforcement, citation audit, filing validation, stale info detection, orphan pages, and benchmarks. Use when asked to check brain health, run maintenance, or audit quality.

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

# Maintain Skill

Periodic brain health checks and cleanup.

## Contract

This skill guarantees:
- All health dimensions are checked (stale, orphan, dead links, cross-refs, backlinks, citations, filing, tags)
- Each issue found has a specific fix action
- Back-link iron law is enforced
- Citation format is validated against the standard
- Results are reported with counts per dimension

## Phases

### Ownership failures are an inspection boundary

Routine maintenance, startup checks, `doctor --fix`, and a request to "fix what's
broken" do not authorize writer topology changes. On `owner_unavailable` or a
writer coordination refusal, inspect `gbrain sources writer status --brain <id>
--json` on the selected host first and report the owner, epoch, enabled state and
blocked recovery to the operator. Do not claim a checkout, activate managed mode,
transfer an owner, replace identities, or remove ownership markers as a repair.
When the status reads `enabled: false` and the refusal says `unbound_source`,
the brain is in classic mode on purpose: report that writes go through the
checkout (file, commit, `gbrain sync`) and leave it classic.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/maintain@sha256:577df95df875d8dc

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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_dixc5uptalrhaoyr.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dixc5uptalrhaoyr)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 5 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.1.0 latest2026-10-28 742ce70 30,543 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-21 80d0ea8 30,312 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-17 e366541 29,890 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-16 4d33ee2 29,584 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-16 61909f1 29,322 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-09 f839e3e 28,025 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-08 8afb109 27,724 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-07 d5b7e25 28,147 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-07 590bb9a 27,807 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-07 2d07f8b 27,080 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-15 f1fbdfb 22,927 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-08-31 2a56b51 22,647 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-08-27 8a22ee8 20,458 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-08-18 f49ca56 20,161 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-08-17 489e277 19,528 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 (30543 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

garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dixc5uptalrhaoyr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/maintain
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/577df95df875d8dcfc753a681b94defd8d209a8190cffbe8ab46a3897876ecf6

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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