gating SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
gating from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/gating@v0.3.0Pins v0.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/gating/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v0.3.0, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 2, 2026
- Size
- 12,613 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Build and audit deterministic verification gates — a check that blocks a pipeline and can be shown to go red. Use when writing a calibration gate, CI check, validation script or pre-publication check for a numeric or empirical result; when a plausible-but-wrong value would survive review; when asking whether an existing test, linter rule or check could actually fail; and when a suite passes first try, passes suspiciously often, or was written by whatever produced the thing it checks. Triggers…
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
# gating A gate is a check that blocks. Its only job is to go red when it should. The characteristic failure is not a wrong check — a wrong check gets noticed. It is a check that **cannot fail**, which reports PASS forever and is indistinguishable from a working one from the outside. That is what makes this different from ordinary testing: the object under suspicion is the check. ## When NOT to use this skill Scope is ONE check and whether it can be made to fail. | Situation | Use | |---|---| | Sequence several steps with branches and retries | flowing | | Run the repo's existing suite | run it | | Decide what to test at all | this skill has no opinion; that is design | A gate is a thing that goes red. If nothing here can go red, there is no gate to audit. ## The three obligations Every gate owes these. A gate missing any of them is not yet a gate. **1. An anchor outside your own code.** Something the check compares against that your implementation did not produce: a published constant, a closed-form answer, a conservation law, a degenerate case with a known result, an independent implementation. A check that compares this run to the last run only …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/gating@sha256:3fed62334d9eb61bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ksq4s4osr56rxroz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.3.0 latest | 2026-08-25 | 04bfd5b | 12,613 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-08-03 | ded1afd | 12,309 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-02 | a941d79 | 9,069 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12613 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ksq4s4osr56rxroz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/gating GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3fed62334d9eb61b81cfac2ea25a93470977c23e749338b588f211365a34c0c8
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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