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artifact-gates from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/artifact-gates@git:20260727.1573a13

Pins git:20260727.1573a13 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
Path: artifact-gates/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260727.1573a13, committed Jul 27, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 27, 2026
Size: 10,786 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Make workflow steps enforceable by giving each one a file it must produce. Use when an agent skips steps in a long directive, playbook, or slash command despite them being marked MANDATORY/ABSOLUTE/BLOCKING; when writing or reviewing a multi-step workflow that must not be short-circuited; when a review, design, or verification step is being self-reported rather than proven; or when a merge/label/publish action needs a machine-checked precondition instead of a promise. Triggers on…

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

# Artifact Gates

> A step that produces no artifact cannot be enforced, and will be skipped.

## The observation this is built on

A long directive is read **once**, before any work exists. Then hours of
`tool-result → decide → tool-call` go by with nothing re-presenting it. It stops being *present*.

In one recorded failure, a single run of a workflow directive skipped **eight** steps marked
`[BLOCKING]` — rubber-ducking, adversarial design review, the QA matrix, TDD, code review,
security review, docs, CI preflight — while **every hook-enforced gate in the same session was
obeyed without exception.**

The difference was not severity. Both said ABSOLUTE. The difference was *when the instruction
arrives*: a hook fires at the instant of the action; prose fired hours ago.

And the skipped set was not random. It was exactly the set whose output was **unobservable**:

- TDD partly survived, because it leaves a failing test — a *thing* the next step needs.
- Rubber-ducking did not, because it produces only a better state of mind. **Doing it and claiming
  it were indistinguishable, so the free option won.**
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/artifact-gates@sha256:c5dce4551a65e5ec

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.1573a13, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_dyggsluzrl4etlg6.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dyggsluzrl4etlg6)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 27, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260727.1573a13 latest	2026-07-27	1573a13	10,786 B	A	view · diff
git:20260727.08ab280	2026-07-27	08ab280	10,035 B	A	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 (10786 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

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dyggsluzrl4etlg6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/artifact-gates
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c5dce4551a65e5ecadf217d620b6a76c3b02c2a82a2a259daf27125e527a82b4

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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