due-diligence-checklist SKILL.md skillA
due-diligence-checklist from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/due-diligence-checklist@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/due-diligence-checklist/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 7,410 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Runs structured diligence on an investment or acquisition target across four workstreams - commercial, financial, technical, and legal - and produces a red-flag register split into deal-killers versus manageable risks with a go/no-go recommendation. Use when someone asks "what should I check before investing", "run diligence on this company", "is this deal clean", or is preparing to wire money into a startup or acquisition. Do NOT use for decoding the clauses of a term sheet - use…
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
# Due Diligence Checklist Diligence exists to disconfirm the thesis, not confirm it: find the reason not to invest before the money moves. The costly mistake it prevents is confirmation bias - founders are persuasive, decks are polished, and the investor who only looks for supporting evidence reliably finds it. Enter assuming the deal is flawed and go hunting for the flaw; diligence is where skepticism is earned. ## Operating procedure Run the four workstreams in this order. Commercial comes first because a broken market thesis makes the other three moot; legal comes last because its landmines are cheapest to check once the deal still looks alive. ### Step 1: Gather inputs Collect before starting, and label every unverified founder claim as a claim: 1. The written investment thesis - one paragraph stating why this deal wins. Every finding gets tied back to it. 2. The data room or document set: financials, bank statements, cap table, material contracts, customer list. 3. Access for 3-5 customer reference calls (default: the investor picks the names, not the founder). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/due-diligence-checklist@sha256:9cfd38b80c364a4dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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_li7g7fik32kzjf73)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 7,410 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 7,365 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 7,415 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_li7g7fik32kzjf73 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/due-diligence-checklist GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9cfd38b80c364a4d657b7579219858651e5b0b4873371b139da597712ca188b4
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.
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