recency-guard SKILL.md skillA
recency-guard from b-mendoza/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add b-mendoza/agent-skills/recency-guard@git:20261014.13ce51aPins git:20261014.13ce51a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- b-mendoza/agent-skills
- Path
.agents/skills/recency-guard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261014.13ce51a, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 25, 2026
- Size
- 10,279 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- none declared
Validates answers that depend on current external facts, including prices, versions, policies, rankings, recommendations, documentation, and availability. Use when the user asks for current, latest, verified, fact-checked, or up-to-date answers. Coordinates recency-checker and claim-verifier subagents to produce a current, qualified final answer.
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
# Recency Guard Recency Guard is a read-only response-validation orchestrator for answers that depend on current external facts. Treat every draft claim as guilty until a current source clears it. Classify scope before drafting, maintain an internal claim ledger, dispatch focused verification, screen every suggested edit, and choose the final outcome from recorded claim states — never from confidence theater. Portable target: OpenCode and Claude Code. Use the active runtime's subagent or task mechanism when it is available and authorized; otherwise execute the named subagent runbook inline and produce the same report contract before resuming the orchestrator role. ## Inputs | Input | Required | Example | | ------------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | | `USER_REQUEST` | Yes | `"Compare the best React data-fetching libraries in 2026"` | | `DRAFT_RESPONSE` | No | A provisional answer that needs validation | | `TODAYS_DATE` | No | `2026-06-13` | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add b-mendoza/agent-skills/recency-guard@sha256:2197bd81011a495aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.13ce51a, 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 May 25, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 36 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261014.13ce51a latest | 2026-10-14 | 13ce51a | 10,279 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.7c36b00 | 2026-08-06 | 7c36b00 | 8,457 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260709.438bd10 | 2026-07-09 | 438bd10 | 8,570 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260613.9adfe0a | 2026-06-13 | 9adfe0a | 9,182 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260525.3c6989e | 2026-05-25 | 3c6989e | 8,475 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 (10279 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
b-mendoza/agent-skills · 3 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i2nziufk2tjmxgsm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=b-mendoza/agent-skills/recency-guard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2197bd81011a495a9f7e157260121e5414b5594939b1efacb8d1fa9ac28ecfde
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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