audit-before-patch SKILL.md skillA
audit-before-patch from annatchijova/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add annatchijova/skills/audit-before-patch@git:20260708.f31c428Pins git:20260708.f31c428 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- annatchijova/skills
- Path
audit-before-patch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260708.f31c428, committed Jul 8, 2026
- Size
- 4,969 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Validate any audit finding, bug report, or proposed fix against the actual current file content before changing a single line. Use this whenever you act on a problem someone else reported — a human reviewer, another AI auditor, a linter, a security scan, a "the audit found X in file Y" message — and whenever you are about to apply a patch or change set you did not personally derive from reading the live file. Triggers — "the auditor flagged", "apply this fix", "the review said…
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
# Audit Before Patch A finding is a claim, not a fact. An auditor — human, AI, or tool — says "file X has bug Y at location Z". Acting on that directly treats the claim as ground truth, but auditors are wrong in characteristic ways: they reason over a stale copy, they read a fragment instead of the whole file and miss the guard three lines down that already handles the case, they pattern-match a bug that isn't actually present in this code. The discipline is simple and it has saved more regressions than any test: **verify every finding against the live file before you touch it.** The finding tells you where to look; it does not earn the right to a patch. This is the companion to `surgical-patcher`. That skill governs *how* to change a file safely once you've decided to. This one governs *whether* the change is warranted at all. ## Why confident findings are the dangerous ones …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add annatchijova/skills/audit-before-patch@sha256:7775b301ae0a6c9aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260708.f31c428, 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_lphyfnfligfckgro)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 8, 2026.
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 (4969 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
annatchijova/skills · 9 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lphyfnfligfckgro GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=annatchijova/skills/audit-before-patch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7775b301ae0a6c9a765aa8330cfcbf0cc6cfb0731677245e9f65d0a8fe22fc8d
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.