ask-gate-dtd SKILL.md skillA

ask-gate-dtd from nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander/ask-gate-dtd@git:20260920.98f1e64

Pins git:20260920.98f1e64 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander
Path
skills/ask-gate-dtd/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
13
Latest version
git:20260920.98f1e64, committed Sep 20, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 2, 2026
Size
34,193 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
AGPL-3.0

The intake and decision gate as a reusable state machine. Load when a task should start with structured questions and a start, more, add gate, when designing a command that uses AskUserQuestion, or when a gate must be skipped safely in an autonomous run with every assumption listed.

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

<!-- Generated by rdc build from src/skills/ask-gate-dtd/SKILL.md: edit the source, never this file. -->

<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later OR EUPL-1.2 -->
<!-- Copyright 2026 Saimonokuma. -->

<!DOCTYPE gate_skill [
  
  
<!-- begin subset cc-core -->
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later OR EUPL-1.2 -->
<!-- Copyright 2026 Saimonokuma. -->
<!--
  cc-core.dtd : the shared EXTERNAL SUBSET for every *-dtd command, skill and agent.

  Never referenced at runtime. A command is one .md file, so the installer
  (bin/rot-dtd-commander.mjs) inlines this subset into each DOCTYPE at install time and
  the checker refuses any file whose declarations and prose disagree.

  Dialect: VALIDATING. Every content model is (#PCDATA) or a sequence, never
  (CDATA). Trust travels as a FIXED attribute so a stock XML validator can
  judge a rendered answer while a plain grep can still read the contract.

  Sections: trust classes, unparsed channels, common vocabulary, core laws.
-->

<!-- ===== TRUST CLASSES ===== -->
<!-- The model's own parsed reasoning is PCDATA. Anything carried in from
     outside (arguments, files, tool output, user answers) is CDATA: data,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander/ask-gate-dtd@sha256:e957e0e78befebc1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.98f1e64, 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

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ja6ddlzi7fsd434v.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ja6ddlzi7fsd434v)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 13 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260920.98f1e64 latest2026-09-20 98f1e64 34,193 BA view · diff
git:20260917.9ce72002026-09-17 9ce7200 34,193 BA view · diff
git:20260916.b7506d72026-09-16 b7506d7 33,860 BA view · diff
git:20260911.9a4d65f2026-09-11 9a4d65f 31,267 BA view · diff
git:20260907.6acd54d2026-09-07 6acd54d 29,949 BA view · diff
git:20260907.5c76a202026-09-07 5c76a20 28,893 BA view · diff
git:20260907.f7525bf2026-09-07 f7525bf 28,393 BA view · diff
git:20260906.08876fb2026-09-06 08876fb 19,393 BA view · diff
git:20260904.eec3c6e2026-09-04 eec3c6e 18,501 BA view · diff
git:20260904.e272ff32026-09-04 e272ff3 17,310 BA view · diff
git:20260902.9254b512026-09-02 9254b51 16,763 BA view · diff
git:20260902.c8c8c072026-09-02 c8c8c07 14,285 BA view · diff
git:20260902.dfcf32f2026-09-02 dfcf32f 14,219 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 (34193 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

nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander · 3 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ja6ddlzi7fsd434v
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander/ask-gate-dtd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e957e0e78befebc19bec3d32fa7c30ddd03dfc7e940ea658ab3d2803c038d931

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