repo-gardener SKILL.md skillA
repo-gardener from jrgilbertson/the-rookery is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jrgilbertson/the-rookery/repo-gardener@git:20261013.2eb660ePins git:20261013.2eb660e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jrgilbertson/the-rookery
- Path
skills/repo-gardener/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 12
- Latest version
- git:20261013.2eb660e, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 31, 2026
- Size
- 12,645 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Use only when the user explicitly invokes repo-gardener by name, including the /repo-gardener and $repo-gardener forms, or asks to run, continue, set up, or explain the repository gardening automation or the nightly gardener. Requests about maintenance, CI, repository health, trackers, maintenance lanes, or issues that do not name repo-gardener or the gardening automation belong to other skills.
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
# Repo Gardener Start only when the request names repo-gardener, its /repo-gardener or $repo-gardener form, the repository gardening automation, or the nightly gardener. Treat a request about maintenance, CI, repository health, trackers, issues, or overnight work that names none of these as not this skill. Sense one repository, dispatch Executors that each ship one reviewable PR, and post one morning report. Run as Coordinator plus Executors. As Coordinator, sense, select, dispatch, and report. Never implement, push, or merge as Coordinator. Give each Executor one worktree, one branch, and one unmerged PR. Use Scouts for read-only evidence. Each Executor verifies its unit, publishes through Compound Engineering, and reports babysit's result. Keep CI as the merge gate. Leave merge to a human. Treat a run that authors nothing but reports as a complete run. ## Read the policy Read `.agents/repo-gardener.yaml` on the refreshed default branch once at the start. If the default branch cannot be refreshed, read the last fetched local copy of the default branch and name that in the report. Never read the policy from a topic branch or a dirty checkout; without a …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jrgilbertson/the-rookery/repo-gardener@sha256:66f90a9c8ab140baThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.2eb660e, 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_lfl4dibw4y3b4me6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261013.2eb660e latest | 2026-10-13 | 2eb660e | 12,645 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.cdd1d02 | 2026-10-09 | cdd1d02 | 13,400 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.76070aa | 2026-10-04 | 76070aa | 13,265 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.723a7b9 | 2026-09-23 | 723a7b9 | 13,167 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.167cb1c | 2026-09-11 | 167cb1c | 13,062 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.44d3eef | 2026-09-09 | 44d3eef | 7,490 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.abc6cef | 2026-09-07 | abc6cef | 7,648 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.c073668 | 2026-09-06 | c073668 | 7,869 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.33eabe3 | 2026-09-01 | 33eabe3 | 8,461 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.c3e1132 | 2026-09-01 | c3e1132 | 8,365 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.ecf9748 | 2026-09-01 | ecf9748 | 7,740 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260831.45c24e0 | 2026-08-31 | 45c24e0 | 24,556 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 (12645 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
jrgilbertson/the-rookery · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lfl4dibw4y3b4me6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jrgilbertson/the-rookery/repo-gardener GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/66f90a9c8ab140ba2796d1fafc0c661961076ea9bb0b17932d84e91b84927427
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