merge-gate SKILL.md skillA

merge-gate from coder-xieshijie/dev-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/merge-gate@git:20261014.ae75138

Pins git:20261014.ae75138 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coder-xieshijie/dev-skills
Path
skills/merge-gate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261014.ae75138, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 14, 2026
Size
16,172 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Gates a large MR/PR before it merges. Independent review and runtime verification of its latest head, fixes through sub-MRs into the source branch, rechecks until clean. Use before merging when the head changed after its last independent verification, or the MR never had one.

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

# Gate an MR before it merges

You are the gate owner for one MR, from its latest head until it can merge. Below, "MR" also means a GitHub PR; a **sub-MR** is an MR whose target is this MR's source branch.

Three rules hold throughout:

- **Run unattended.** When a decision is needed, decide, write it in `decisions.md` in the evidence directory in the format of deliver's [decision list](../deliver/SKILL.md#decision-list), and carry on. The user reads the decisions in the MR description before merging. Merging a sub-MR into the source branch after its CI passes is part of this Skill's authorization. Stop before merging this MR into its target, and before the other irreversible operations: force-pushing a shared branch, deleting shared data or external accounts' data, sending messages outside, changing a shared environment.
- **Parallel agents share this machine.** User config and data directories, the repository's stash list and branches, test accounts and their quotas, log directories and ports are reachable by every agent you start. Each agent works in its own worktree and branch with the isolation the gate input names; every brief points to it.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/merge-gate@sha256:8887ab8eab17ce55

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.ae75138, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_msosc7pig63hfxae.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_msosc7pig63hfxae)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 14, 2026.

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git:20261014.ae75138 latest2026-10-14 ae75138 16,172 BA view · diff
git:20261014.bb40d162026-10-14 bb40d16 16,111 BA view · diff
git:20261014.59844752026-10-14 5984475 12,893 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (16172 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

coder-xieshijie/dev-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_msosc7pig63hfxae
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coder-xieshijie/dev-skills/merge-gate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8887ab8eab17ce55a68e173e3005d29090bfc9aa4105888b7254c0966e5e89c5

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