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no-delete-guardrail is agent-read markdown (skill) from kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-skills: Applies a standing safety guardrail. No file, folder, email or calendar item is deleted, overwritten or moved without explicit user approval, new versioned files are written instead of overwrites, and every change is journalled. Use when the user asks to change, clean up, reorganise, rename, archive, replace, move or delete anything in OneDrive, SharePoint, email or the calendar, or when any workflow is about to create or modify files..

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What the file says

# No-Delete Guardrail

## PURPOSE

This is a guardrail, not a task. Once loaded it asks the model to apply three rules to every step in the conversation, including steps run by built-in skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Email, Calendar Management) and by other custom skills: nothing destructive happens without explicit approval, existing files are never overwritten (new versioned files are written instead), and every change is journalled to a file the user can audit.

Be clear about the mechanism: this is a behavioural commitment plus an audit journal, not an enforced control. A skill cannot technically intercept another skill's or a built-in's file operations, and an injected instruction or a model lapse can bypass any instruction, including this one. The journal exists so that what happened is at least visible afterwards.

## WHEN TO RUN

Apply these rules from the moment this skill loads, in every conversation it loads in, without being asked. There is no trigger phrase to wait for. Apply the rules to every step that could create, modify, move, rename, archive, overwrite or delete a file, folder, email or calendar item in OneDrive, SharePoint, the mailbox or the calendar.
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How to install

Latest version
mdr add kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-skills/no-delete-guardrail@git:20260611.a54c1ac
Exact content
mdr add kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-skills/no-delete-guardrail@sha256:12c589ac096cebe4

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7605 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

GitHub

kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-skills · 28 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-09-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mevvpmwla7okmktg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kesslernity/awesome-copilot-cowork-skills/no-delete-guardrail
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/12c589ac096cebe407347c67b67e2cf1bcad999522b81b084e2ed426ec032230

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