walk-commits SKILL.md skillA
walk-commits from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/walk-commits@git:20261106.4cf0576Pins git:20261106.4cf0576 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrislacey89/skills
- Path
walk-commits/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261106.4cf0576, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 10, 2026
- Size
- 18,066 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Side-route skill for an interactive, commit-by-commit comprehension walkthrough of a finished branch before merge. Use when the person about to merge didn't author the diff — or hasn't internalized it — and needs to understand each commit's intent, riskiest line, deliberate oddities, and what's absent by design, with per-commit sign-off. Not a defect finder (that's /pre-merge), not a behavioral check (that's /verify), not an acceptance-criteria checklist (that's /execute Step 5). Optional and…
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
# Walk Commits Walk the person about to merge a branch through it commit by commit, so they actually understand what they are shipping. The output is *reviewer comprehension and a sign-off decision*, not a defect list. For each commit you narrate the author's intent (not a restatement of the diff), anchor the single riskiest line, surface the choices that look odd on purpose, name what is absent by design, and flag anything needing the merger's explicit sign-off — then let them step to the next commit. This skill exists because the highest-leverage finding in Cohen's peer-review dataset is *author preparation*: an annotated change walked through by a prepared narrator correlates with near-zero defect variance. The pipeline produces that annotation nowhere else. `/pre-merge` finds defects across the whole diff; `/verify` runs the app; `/execute` Step 5 checks acceptance criteria. None of them narrate the change commit-by-commit for the human who clicks merge. ## Invocation Position This is a **side-route skill**. It does not block merge and is never auto-invoked. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/walk-commits@sha256:3e35255da609ea05The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.4cf0576, 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_mjkk3vpi27mepf4f)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jul 10, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 17 days.
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| git:20261106.4cf0576 latest | 2026-11-06 | 4cf0576 | 18,066 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261102.36871da | 2026-11-02 | 36871da | 17,991 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261029.41931dc | 2026-10-29 | 41931dc | 17,190 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.a0bd75c | 2026-08-28 | a0bd75c | 18,290 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.143a55d | 2026-08-28 | 143a55d | 16,993 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.b3a0b0e | 2026-08-25 | b3a0b0e | 15,692 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.8d70b64 | 2026-08-18 | 8d70b64 | 15,610 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.31ded7d | 2026-07-10 | 31ded7d | 15,044 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 (18066 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
chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch prod
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mjkk3vpi27mepf4f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrislacey89/skills/walk-commits GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3e35255da609ea050fef11570e7cca219fb35681a273c4cbdf7ff9e310a678fa
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