audit-agents 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.

audit-agents from dzhng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add dzhng/skills/audit-agents@git:20261002.5fa4602

Pins git:20261002.5fa4602 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
dzhng/skills
Path
skills/authoring/audit-agents/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261002.5fa4602, committed Oct 2, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 2, 2026
Size
3,393 bytes
Repository stars
1,377
License
MIT

Audit or rewrite AGENTS.md so it holds only lasting principles. Run it only when the user asks for it by name; never invoke it on your own.

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

# Audit Agents

AGENTS.md is read by everyone who will ever work on the project. Picture the next thousand contributors over the next hundred years: a line belongs only if it is still true, and still changes what they do, after every file, tool and dependency has been replaced.

## Workflow

1. Read the AGENTS.md and the root readme. This is a document audit: run no builds and no tests.
2. Give every line one verdict, using the tests below.
   - **Keep**: a principle that passes every test.
   - **Rephrase**: a lasting lesson worded in today's mechanics, or too vague to act on.
   - **Move**: a detail someone needs. Name the owner it belongs to: a readme, a manifest, a skill or a spec.
   - **Delete**: repetition, history, or a line that changes nothing.
3. Check the shape against the example below.
4. Report the findings, highest impact first. Quote each line, give its verdict and the replacement text, and group repeats. Report no finding you can't quote.
5. Edit only when the user asks for a rewrite. Then start from the example, write the file, and reread it as a newcomer with no history of this session.

## Tests for a line
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add dzhng/skills/audit-agents@sha256:78054e2a2adaa210

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.5fa4602, 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

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_he73tfyk7oaem2jx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_he73tfyk7oaem2jx)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 2, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261002.5fa4602 latest2026-10-02 5fa4602 3,393 BA view · diff
git:20261002.940c0d12026-10-02 940c0d1 3,317 BA view · diff
git:20261002.5a4ebe42026-10-02 5a4ebe4 3,445 BA view · diff
git:20261002.f11e53e2026-10-02 f11e53e 3,445 BA view · diff
git:20261002.ac2d5322026-10-02 ac2d532 3,300 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 (3393 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

dzhng/skills · 1,377 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_he73tfyk7oaem2jx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dzhng/skills/audit-agents
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/78054e2a2adaa210752ab0aef2959bf9e634cd30fbc338040668a5570d78ac6c

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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