comment-hygiene SKILL.md skillA
comment-hygiene from jartan-llc/grimoire is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jartan-llc/grimoire/comment-hygiene@git:20261023.fc78225Pins git:20261023.fc78225 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jartan-llc/grimoire
- Path
plugins/praxis/skills/comment-hygiene/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261023.fc78225, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 17, 2026
- Size
- 12,854 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Comment truthfulness -- what a comment must tell the reader that the code can't, the KEEP/DELETE/EXEMPT/CONDITIONAL taxonomy, tombstone and retold-fact detection, and comment density across a diff. Sibling to code-hygiene, code-structure and readable-code.
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
# Comment Hygiene Comment truthfulness only. Use it with `code-hygiene` for dead code, duplication, a single misleading or empty name and faked implementations, and with `code-structure` and `readable-code` for the shape of the code. When you write comments, docstrings or file headers, follow [writing.md](writing.md) beside this file. A comment earns its place only by telling the reader something the **code cannot**. Sharp test: *could a competent reader recover this fact from the code (and the repo)? Yes -> delete; No -> maybe keep.* One fact survives that test despite being recoverable -- the sole exception, so bake it into the test: a **legal/provenance header** is recoverable from `LICENSE` yet kept inline by mandate (see EXEMPT). The **external-anchor WHY** looks like a second exception but isn't one: naming a constant recovers its *value*, never the spec/constraint that dictated it, so that rationale stays genuinely unrecoverable and keeps on the mainline (see KEEP). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jartan-llc/grimoire/comment-hygiene@sha256:755c72d0b6a2cd4dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.fc78225, 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_gcakdxetpmsnfcns)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 22 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261023.fc78225 latest | 2026-10-23 | fc78225 | 12,854 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261015.08115b5 | 2026-10-15 | 08115b5 | 12,842 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.bd4591a | 2026-10-13 | bd4591a | 12,693 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260817.05c470c | 2026-08-17 | 05c470c | 12,898 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 (12854 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
jartan-llc/grimoire · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gcakdxetpmsnfcns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jartan-llc/grimoire/comment-hygiene GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/755c72d0b6a2cd4d90f19d311efa3720d80d84b580045ed2aedc1c994f1ff482
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