pan-gauntlet-loop SKILL.md skillA
pan-gauntlet-loop from eltmon/overdeck is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add eltmon/overdeck/pan-gauntlet-loop@git:20261106.0f67c08Pins git:20261106.0f67c08 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- eltmon/overdeck
- Path
sync-sources/skills/pan-gauntlet-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261106.0f67c08, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 11, 2026
- Size
- 20,206 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Run a Gauntlet Loop — fan out builder sub-agents per area, judge each with a SEPARATE harsh critic in a blind A/B against a named reference bar, keep looping until every area wins, and track it all on a live progress page. Use when the user wants to take any project, feature, or domain to an extreme quality tier ("make it AAA", "at the level of <reference>", "utterly perfect", "run the gauntlet", "gauntlet loop"). Works for any domain — games, UI, CLIs, APIs, libraries, docs, performance…
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
# Gauntlet Loop Take any domain to a named quality bar with a builder/critic loop: fan out a builder sub-agent per area, judge each area with a **separate** harsh critic (fresh context, blind A/B against the reference, binary verdict), feed defects back, and loop until every area is WOWED. A live progress page tracks every area, screenshot, verdict, and defect list. Origin: Matt Shumer's gauntlet prompt; hardened by the operational lessons of runs #1–#2 (folded into the phases below — every rule exists because its absence cost an iteration). ## Phase 0 — Intake: fill the slots, ask about the gaps **Run-file shortcut:** a run file (e.g. `gauntlet/RUN-<CODENAME>.md`) may pre-fill every slot and carry the operator's approval in writing. When one exists and the operator pointed you at it, the run file IS the contract — skip intake questions and the Phase-1 approval gate, and follow the run file wherever it is more specific than this skill. Otherwise, extract these slots from the user's request. For every slot that is missing or vague, ask via AskUserQuestion — batch up to 4 questions per call, each self-contained (the operator may answer from a dashboard dialog without …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add eltmon/overdeck/pan-gauntlet-loop@sha256:5b2930cd084e29e2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.0f67c08, 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_loqu547aqtnx3yjn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 11, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 17 days.
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| git:20261106.0f67c08 latest | 2026-11-06 | 0f67c08 | 20,206 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261102.507d152 | 2026-11-02 | 507d152 | 18,943 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.e1e0185 | 2026-09-27 | e1e0185 | 18,323 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.bf9d4d0 | 2026-08-21 | bf9d4d0 | 12,688 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.c229741 | 2026-08-12 | c229741 | 8,898 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.f7b1fcf | 2026-08-11 | f7b1fcf | 8,878 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 (20206 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
eltmon/overdeck · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_loqu547aqtnx3yjn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eltmon/overdeck/pan-gauntlet-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5b2930cd084e29e2e2c95869453322bf60dba39740c0f2c586a70fed5e2f89b6
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