gentle-ai-chained-pr SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

gentle-ai-chained-pr from gentleman-programming/gentle-shell is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai-chained-pr@v1.0

Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
gentleman-programming/gentle-shell
Path
skills/chained-pr/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v1.0, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded
May 11, 2026
Size
6,749 bytes
Repository stars
2,084
License
MIT

Trigger: PRs over 400 lines, stacked PRs, review slices. Split oversized changes into chained PRs that protect review focus.

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

## Activation Contract

Load this skill when a planned PR may exceed **400 changed lines**, an ODD feature's forecast or running authored changed-line count from work-unit commits exceeds about 400, or the user asks for chained/stacked PRs, review slices, or reviewer-load control. The per-task advisory 400 authored-line heuristic does not itself require a PR split.

## Hard Rules

- Recommend slicing PRs over **400 changed lines**; offer the ordered oversized-delivery menu below and follow the user's selection subject to the destination repository's documented contribution/size policy.
- `size:exception` is a Gentle-owned repository policy, not a universal label requirement. Never request, create, or add this label for generic users unless the destination policy uses it. Preserve that policy's maintainer acceptance gates and protected-label human authorization; selection alone grants neither.
- The budget constrains how work is **sliced**, never the code itself. Never delete comments, blank lines, docs, or tests, and never compress or restyle code, to fit under the budget.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai-chained-pr@sha256:73f8648be387937d

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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_elc7imi5fp4d5zrz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_elc7imi5fp4d5zrz)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between May 11, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 28 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0 latest2026-09-30 2843a59 6,749 BA view · diff
v1.02026-09-25 4014403 4,051 BA view · diff
v1.02026-09-17 d1c0067 3,341 BA view · diff
v1.02026-08-31 2394b9f 3,113 BA view · diff
v1.02026-07-08 788ea60 2,522 BA view · diff
v1.02026-05-11 94b55fe 2,512 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 (6749 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

gentleman-programming/gentle-shell · 2,084 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_elc7imi5fp4d5zrz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai-chained-pr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73f8648be387937dd626a244072d4968b12ed4874c6fad493cc9c051a49a40eb

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.

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