foundational-review SKILL.md skillA
foundational-review from mikeprasad/aria-knowledge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mikeprasad/aria-knowledge/foundational-review@git:20260819.2e7ae9ePins git:20260819.2e7ae9e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mikeprasad/aria-knowledge
- Path
plugin-openai-codex/skills/foundational-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260819.2e7ae9e, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 16,599 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Run a verdict-led foundational review before an irreversible decision such as a version freeze, schema/spec tag, public API/repo flip, major re-scope, or keep/kill moment. Produces findings sections A-F, premises, irreversibility inventory, specs, cold-executable plans, prospect amendments, and a kickoff. Requires a named decision; otherwise redirect to /prospect or /readiness-audit.
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
# /foundational-review — "Is this the right thing, built the right way?" Run a repeatable, model-agnostic review of a project at the FOUNDATIONS — problem–solution fit, architecture soundness, product coherence — and convert the findings into a prospect-hardened, cold-executable plan with owner routing. This is the productized form of the foundational review chain (the canonical process doc this skill reads at Step 1). This skill is **orchestration + artifact templates only**. The substance — the A–F review questions, the operating rules, the failure-mode library, the pairing contract — lives in the canonical process doc, which Step 1 reads in full. Do not reproduce that doc's content from memory; read it live every run so the chain evolves in one place. **What this is NOT** (the process doc opens with this — internalize it): - **Not a code review** — code review asks "are these changes correct?" on a diff. This asks "should this shape exist?" on a decision. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mikeprasad/aria-knowledge/foundational-review@sha256:e7c94cfac614a24bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.2e7ae9e, 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_lgxtpux3l67atmtt)
5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 11, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 35 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260819.2e7ae9e latest | 2026-08-19 | 2e7ae9e | 16,599 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.0584f24 | 2026-07-17 | 0584f24 | 16,609 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.0729f99 | 2026-06-11 | 0729f99 | 16,595 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 (16599 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
mikeprasad/aria-knowledge · 18 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lgxtpux3l67atmtt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mikeprasad/aria-knowledge/foundational-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e7c94cfac614a24b847ed2df61414abb8be8196453dacb2eb7ef61a8e1a23ca3
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.
More from mikeprasad/aria-knowledge
Every file in mikeprasad/aria-knowledge