repository-governance-lifecycle SKILL.md skillA
repository-governance-lifecycle from arenukvern/skill_steward is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arenukvern/skill_steward/repository-governance-lifecycle@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arenukvern/skill_steward
- Path
skills/repository-governance-lifecycle/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 13, 2026
- Size
- 9,527 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Master orchestration for repository governance, North Star impact, sub-Star boundaries, and repair-first or evidence-first drift checks. Guides an agent through the complete lifecycle of making architectural decisions, documenting them, writing FAQs, and cleaning up stale plans while adhering strictly to repo ethics and brand tone. Use whenever you need to make a structural change, write an ADR, update the doc lattice, or govern repository architecture.
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
# Repository Governance Lifecycle ## Concept bridge (read before procedural steps) Skill Steward procedures assume three portable lenses. If you only have this skill installed, load the digests in `references/` (they ship with the skill). Full essays live on docs.page. | Lens | One-line | When to apply | Digest | Full | |------|----------|---------------|--------|------| | **Engineering Stewardship** | Keep the repo ecology understandable and improvable via observe → decide → update → prove → preserve | Friction repeats or survives one session | [stewardship-loop.md](references/stewardship-loop.md) | [docs.page](https://docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward/core/stewardship-loop) · [North Star](https://docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward/NORTH_STAR) | | **Evolutionary simplicity** | Evolve toward lower future confusion (split / compress / promote / demote / delete / stay native) — not always fewer parts | Before adding, splitting, merging, or deleting a surface | [evolutionary-simplicity.md](references/evolutionary-simplicity.md) | [docs.page](https://docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward/core/evolutionary-simplicity) | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arenukvern/skill_steward/repository-governance-lifecycle@sha256:a3b83beac3d6bf65The 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_egyofzspsouqwlt3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 13, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 21 days.
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-10-17 | 9c3e7cb | 9,527 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-17 | e2a44ad | 9,809 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-23 | e7c1182 | 8,195 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-23 | dcc8dc9 | 8,082 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-06-15 | 6a7ec03 | 6,169 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-06-13 | a488063 | 5,991 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-06-13 | 9a08264 | 5,078 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9527 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
arenukvern/skill_steward · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_egyofzspsouqwlt3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arenukvern/skill_steward/repository-governance-lifecycle GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a3b83beac3d6bf65fb95870a8d9d2edfedbe3f501d4bb758d4df6351bc985fa0
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