code-health-audit SKILL.md skillA
code-health-audit from jerseycheese/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/code-health-audit@git:20261016.04e815bPins git:20261016.04e815b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jerseycheese/agent-skills
- Path
skills/code-health-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261016.04e815b, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 28, 2026
- Size
- 5,972 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Runs the "embarrassing code" / overengineering sweep and turns tech-debt anxiety into a short list of validated simplifications. Syncs the base branch and checks the worktree first so it never audits stale code. Trigger on: "code health audit", "overengineering audit", "what can we simplify", "tech debt sweep".
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 Health Audit A repeatable sweep for dead code, overengineering, and embarrassing/inconsistent patterns. The point isn't to list everything wrong — it's to ship a handful of high-value, low-risk simplifications with a net-negative line count and a green test suite. The distinctive value of this skill is the pre-flight (Phase 0). Most audit rework comes from auditing the wrong branch or a stale worktree copy, then building changes that were already merged or that don't match the live code. Do Phase 0 first, every time — don't skip it because you "know" the state. ## Phase 0: Pre-Flight — Get the Working State Right ### 1. Sync the correct base branch Audits run against the integration branch, not whatever happens to be checked out. Confirm the base (usually `develop`; `main` if there's no `develop`) and sync it: ```bash git fetch --prune git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD # what am I on? git checkout [BASE_BRANCH] git pull --ff-only git rev-list --count HEAD..origin/[BASE_BRANCH] # 0 == up to date ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/code-health-audit@sha256:a22adb1bf6595f98The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.04e815b, 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_el5ns6ngy6pvhnar)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 28, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 110 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261016.04e815b latest | 2026-10-16 | 04e815b | 5,972 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260628.9366aee | 2026-06-28 | 9366aee | 6,305 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 (5972 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
jerseycheese/agent-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_el5ns6ngy6pvhnar GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jerseycheese/agent-skills/code-health-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a22adb1bf6595f98e029deaaf428603d658ba58ce451ace71e3bacb3bc62a852
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.