garbage-collection SKILL.md skillA
garbage-collection from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/garbage-collection@git:20260501.cd7876dPins git:20260501.cd7876d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
- Path
ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/garbage-collection/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260501.cd7876d, committed May 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 6, 2026
- Size
- 8,843 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
This skill should be used when the user asks about "garbage collection rules", "entropy fighting", "documentation staleness", "dead code detection", "convention drift", "periodic checks", "auto-fix rules", or needs guidance on the Garbage Collection section of HARNESS.md.
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
# Garbage Collection Garbage collection in a harness context means periodic checks that fight entropy — the slow drift that neither real-time hooks nor PR gates catch. Documentation goes stale, conventions erode, dead code accumulates, dependencies fall behind. This is Boeckeler's third harness component: agents that run periodically to find inconsistencies and violations, actively fighting decay. ## Anatomy of a GC Rule Every GC rule in HARNESS.md has five fields: - **What it checks** — the specific entropy being detected - **Frequency** — `daily`, `weekly`, or `manual` - **Enforcement** — `deterministic` or `agent` - **Tool** — what runs the check - **Auto-fix** — `true` (GC agent fixes it) or `false` (create an issue instead) ## Choosing Frequency | Frequency | Use for | | --- | --- | | daily | Fast checks with high entropy rate (style drift in active codebases) | | weekly | Most GC rules — documentation, dependencies, dead code | | manual | Exploratory checks not yet calibrated for automation | Start with weekly for most rules. Only move to daily if the entropy rate justifies the cost. ## The Auto-Fix Decision …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/garbage-collection@sha256:7b4d0ba33553221eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260501.cd7876d, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 6, 2026 and May 1, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20260501.cd7876d latest | 2026-05-01 | cd7876d | 8,843 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260414.1437c9d | 2026-04-14 | 1437c9d | 6,977 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260407.c7346d4 | 2026-04-07 | c7346d4 | 5,635 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260407.9abc03f | 2026-04-07 | 9abc03f | 4,312 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260406.60a61ca | 2026-04-06 | 60a61ca | 3,187 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 (8843 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
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 121 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_f55tyakrfcnyf4uh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/garbage-collection GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7b4d0ba33553221e5dc7ab6aadaf99aba118e95ba9718274dbfe4d1f7ed72ee8
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