ripwire-quality-bar SKILL.md skillA

ripwire-quality-bar from redhat-et/ripwire is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add redhat-et/ripwire/ripwire-quality-bar@git:20261011.90d73a7

Pins git:20261011.90d73a7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
redhat-et/ripwire
Path
skills/ripwire-quality-bar/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
18
Latest version
git:20261011.90d73a7, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 10, 2026
Size
35,104 bytes
Repository stars
2,530
License
Apache-2.0

Code QUALITY of what YOU just wrote, before commit or 'done', or a cleanup: --quality-delta lists what got WORSE in 12 kinds, exit 2 if old code got worse (new-symbol rows never gate, except defect-shape format-arity); the fix a measured shape (humps/deep, tangle) calls for. Merge safety → change-check. Even a single-line leaf fix runs it.

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

# The quality-bar convergence loop

> Routing:
> • PR-submission readiness — tests to run, blast radius, "safe to merge?" → **ripwire-change-check** — run
>   `--quality-delta` FIRST, then its `--test-gate`: clean code that runs the wrong tests still regresses.
> • Reusing before you write the code in the first place → **ripwire-reuse-first**.
> • Wide-angle "where does this still look rotten" read across a whole file/subsystem (not a before/after
>   delta) → the panel below, or **ripwire-fresh-eyes** for the full six-family breakdown.
> • **You have the measurement and need the FIX** — for your own diff or for a subsystem **ripwire-fresh-eyes**
>   just measured → the shape → refactor playbook, the closed fix loop and the debt fix loop are all on this page, below.
> • **The regression is a MEMORY-layout hypothesis, not one of the 12 quality kinds** — `--lint`'s built-in
>   cache-\* pack (8 static data-layout checks) is a normal part of a lint pass; `--field-affinity[=STRUCT]`
>   is the deeper struct-level lens once a profile implicates a specific aggregate → **ripwire-perf-target**.
> • Not sure which skill? → **ripwire-router**.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add redhat-et/ripwire/ripwire-quality-bar@sha256:563f12123719d8a2

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.90d73a7, 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 18 versions of this file, between Sep 10, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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git:20261011.90d73a7 latest2026-10-11 90d73a7 35,104 BA view · diff
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git:20261009.9b3cd1d2026-10-09 9b3cd1d 34,898 BA view · diff
git:20261008.7cb6d8e2026-10-08 7cb6d8e 34,856 BA view · diff
git:20261008.3644a762026-10-08 3644a76 34,853 BA view · diff
git:20261007.90438882026-10-07 9043888 34,919 BA view · diff
git:20260930.04b81512026-09-30 04b8151 33,871 BA view · diff
git:20260930.dc8597e2026-09-30 dc8597e 33,871 BA view · diff
git:20260930.37dbb712026-09-30 37dbb71 33,325 BA view · diff
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git:20260926.d9d6a852026-09-26 d9d6a85 30,895 BA view · diff
git:20260913.88355ac2026-09-13 88355ac 30,349 BA view · diff
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git:20260910.bad96462026-09-10 bad9646 29,880 BA view · diff
git:20260910.908110a2026-09-10 908110a 29,877 BA view · diff
git:20260910.29ae28d2026-09-10 29ae28d 29,844 BA view

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (35104 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

redhat-et/ripwire · 2,530 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kk2pxj7skyyeigx2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=redhat-et/ripwire/ripwire-quality-bar
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/563f12123719d8a2db61c59ad2f14e30eee859a85b3e61ef316967218da698b0

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