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pastoralist from yowainwright/pastoralist is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yowainwright/pastoralist/pastoralist@git:20260921.1890141

Pins git:20260921.1890141 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yowainwright/pastoralist
Path
skills/pastoralist/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260921.1890141, committed Sep 21, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 28, 2026
Size
5,950 bytes
Repository stars
109
License
MIT

Set up and use Pastoralist to explain dependency overrides, find stale overrides, scan vulnerabilities, and apply security fixes in npm, pnpm, Yarn, or Bun projects. Use for Pastoralist onboarding, override maintenance, install hooks, agent skills, or CI checks involving overrides, resolutions, pnpm-workspace.yaml, or the appendix.

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

# Pastoralist

## Understand it in 30 seconds

Pastoralist manages the reasons for dependency overrides. The package manager
still installs the dependencies.

- **Overrides** choose versions: npm/Bun `overrides`, Yarn `resolutions`, or pnpm
  overrides in `pnpm-workspace.yaml` (legacy `package.json#pnpm.overrides` is supported).
- **Appendix** records dependents and a ledger of dates, reasons, and security
  evidence under `pastoralist.appendix`.
- **Lockfile** records resolved versions. After changing overrides, run the
  project's package manager to update it. Pastoralist does not run that install.

## Set up a project

Read `package.json`, its scripts, lockfile, workspace settings, and any existing
Pastoralist config first. Use the project's package manager; do not replace its
lockfile or overwrite existing hooks. Pastoralist requires Node >=20.19.0.

For pnpm, run from the project root:

```sh
pnpm add -D pastoralist
pnpm exec pastoralist doctor
pnpm exec pastoralist --dry-run
pnpm exec pastoralist
```

Use `pnpm add -Dw pastoralist` when installing at a pnpm workspace root. For npm,
use `npm install -D pastoralist` and `npx pastoralist`. Use the equivalent local
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yowainwright/pastoralist/pastoralist@sha256:02b555546e764c2e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.1890141, 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_jm5xfad2ttzcjwmh.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jm5xfad2ttzcjwmh)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 28, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026, about one every 21 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260921.1890141 latest2026-09-21 1890141 5,950 BA view · diff
git:20260830.3a7f15a2026-08-30 3a7f15a 2,305 BA view · diff
git:20260810.f1f50a22026-08-10 f1f50a2 2,362 BA view · diff
git:20260713.b22b99e2026-07-13 b22b99e 1,541 BA view · diff
git:20260628.213e0d72026-06-28 213e0d7 1,386 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 (5950 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

yowainwright/pastoralist · 109 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jm5xfad2ttzcjwmh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yowainwright/pastoralist/pastoralist
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/02b555546e764c2ec13db9e946ac91b6677a3dd4387dd049d87565b117cf4741

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