santa-method SKILL.md skillA

santa-method from frankxai/claude-skills-library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/santa-method@git:20261011.854bb48

Pins git:20261011.854bb48 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
frankxai/claude-skills-library
Path
absorbed/harness/santa-method/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261011.854bb48, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 10, 2026
Size
1,695 bytes
Repository stars
47
License
MIT

Send a finished change to two reviewers who did not write it, using one rubric, and stop after three rounds. Use before a public page, a priced artifact, or a pull request that changes behavior.

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

# Two reviewers, then stop

The author does not grade the work. Two other readers use the same rubric. Neither sees the other's notes until both have answered.

## Order

1. Run the deterministic checks first: build, types, tests. This pass is for behavior, claims, and omissions.
2. Give both reviewers the spec and the diff. Ask for a pass or a fail per criterion, with a file or a line. A pass that cites nothing is not a pass.
3. Ship only when both pass. If either fails, fix the cited items and ask again with fresh readers.
4. Stop after three rounds. The remaining list goes to a person. A pass with an empty citation is a fail. The round counter is `node absorbed/harness/santa-round.mjs`.

## Estate gates that sit on top

- The author harness does not sign its own pull request. Open a draft.
- Frank's inspection is not the quality layer. A second provider still reads a public or priced artifact.
- Do not merge from the chair that wrote the change.

## Rubric, minimum

- The claim matches a file, a command, or a page you can open.
- The change does what the task asked, including the edge the task named.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/santa-method@sha256:bc1d82cd7f0138cb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.854bb48, 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_jtysn6gaabfreeqk.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jtysn6gaabfreeqk)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 10, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, more than one a day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261011.854bb48 latest2026-10-11 854bb48 1,695 BA view · diff
git:20261010.682b2ce2026-10-10 682b2ce 1,592 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 (1695 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

frankxai/claude-skills-library · 47 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jtysn6gaabfreeqk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=frankxai/claude-skills-library/santa-method
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc1d82cd7f0138cb500e4c592e38b0cb141f8d54c958cb8aaac80af3c631f5b2

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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