vibe-goldfish SKILL.md skillA

vibe-goldfish from aakashdhar/vibe-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add aakashdhar/vibe-skill/vibe-goldfish@git:20261030.c951717

Pins git:20261030.c951717 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
aakashdhar/vibe-skill
Path
vibe-goldfish/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261030.c951717, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 30, 2026
Size
10,528 bytes
Repository stars
7
License
none declared

Independent document review for the vibe-* framework, on the elephant-goldfish model. The agent that wrote a document (the elephant) never reviews it. Fresh read-only subagents with no conversation and no CLAUDE.md (the goldfish) read it cold, each with one job: rubric, comprehension, zoom-out, design critique, implementation readiness, codebase fit. The elephant answers every finding as fix, contest (with evidence), escalate (a person decides) or decline (P2 only). Reviews loop until two…

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

# Vibe Goldfish Skill

The engine behind every independent review in vibe. One agent knows the whole project
and writes the document: the **elephant**. Separate agents that know nothing but the
files try to find what is wrong with it: the **goldfish**. A person decides what the
files can't settle.

The author of a document is the worst judge of it. It remembers why every sentence is
there, so it reads what it meant rather than what it wrote. A goldfish has only what was
written, which is exactly what every later session, parallel builder and new developer
will have.

---

## Setup

```bash
GF="$HOME/.claude/skills/vibe-goldfish/scripts/goldfish.py"
VS="$HOME/.claude/skills/vibe-mode/scripts/vibe_state.py"
python3 "$VS" mode            # vibe_mode decides Step 6 (manual or autonomous)
# entered from `vibe-mode: run` (the caller says so)? use: python3 "$VS" mode --run
```

All commands run from the project root. Everything a review produces lives in
`vibe/goldfish/<target>/`: `ledger.json` (state, owned by goldfish.py), `round-N/`
(each reviewer's raw output) and `resolution.md` (the readable report).

---

## Step 0 — What to review
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add aakashdhar/vibe-skill/vibe-goldfish@sha256:39678760a6777454

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.c951717, 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

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 30, 2026.

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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 (10528 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

aakashdhar/vibe-skill · 7 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kmhbfxhvj53ceut3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aakashdhar/vibe-skill/vibe-goldfish
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/39678760a677745432684055bafd10286837c780b333e23fcfa7fde17ac702f8

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