garbage-collection skillA
garbage-collection is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: 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..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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@git:20260501.cd7876dmdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/garbage-collection@sha256:7b4d0ba33553221ePin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
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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 · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · 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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