risky-changes SKILL.md skillA
risky-changes from davidondrej/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add davidondrej/skills/risky-changes@git:20260912.1dcbb2dPins git:20260912.1dcbb2d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- davidondrej/skills
- Path
skills/ops-and-setup/risky-changes/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260912.1dcbb2d, committed Sep 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 19, 2026
- Size
- 2,836 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,161
- License
- MIT
Verify assumptions before implementing large or risky changes to APIs, provider data, billing, pricing, quotas, or defaults. Use when a mistake could affect customers or the user asks if a change is safe to ship. Checks real-world impact beyond passing tests.
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
# Risky Changes A filter once passed every test but disabled ~99% of the feature on live data. Tests check code correctness; research and live measurement check whether a change is useful. ## When this applies Use for changes where being wrong is expensive or customer-visible: - Public API fields, filters, or response shaping - Dropping, transforming, or reordering upstream data - Billing, pricing, caps, or quotas - Defaults, thresholds, or provider request parameters - Unverified assumptions about external data or user behavior If unsure whether a change qualifies, apply this process. ## 1. Identify assumptions List the assumptions the change depends on. Mark which have evidence and which are still unverified. ## 2. Research before implementing Use available research tools and reliable sources. Investigate each distinct question separately, covering at least: - How do leading products handle this design decision? - What does real-world data look like: frequencies, shapes, and edge cases? - What do users or agents actually need? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add davidondrej/skills/risky-changes@sha256:bdb459b6c7430d85The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.1dcbb2d, 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_lpn4tcl3flmi3qi2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Sep 12, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260912.1dcbb2d latest | 2026-09-12 | 1dcbb2d | 2,836 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.8494ccd | 2026-08-19 | 8494ccd | 5,014 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.964d508 | 2026-08-19 | 964d508 | 5,068 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 (2836 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
davidondrej/skills · 4,161 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lpn4tcl3flmi3qi2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=davidondrej/skills/risky-changes GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bdb459b6c7430d8580b3461f18fb8ffd4a9fe88bbb6b2c6211c1463ddca2a9a8
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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.