prove-it-ship-gate SKILL.md skillA

prove-it-ship-gate from edbertchan/catstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/prove-it-ship-gate@git:20260922.16dfdc7

Pins git:20260922.16dfdc7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
edbertchan/catstack
Path
corpus/skills/prove-it-ship-gate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260922.16dfdc7, committed Sep 22, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 28, 2026
Size
2,981 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
none declared

Auto-trigger when claiming a feature, worker, or integration is done, shipped, or working and the Goal includes live side effects — an external service (Linear tickets, deploy, live mine, external APIs) or the user's own machine, session, or screen (an e2e or Playwright run, an Electron window, a popup on their desktop). Unit/fixture tests and UI registration alone are not enough — route to prove-it for live evidence before treating the claim as settled.

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

# prove-it-ship-gate

Thin routing skill for ship/done claims with live side effects.

Follow Invoker or a locally installed `prove-it` for the shared evidence rule.
This file only adds the ship/done auto-route; it does not replace `prove-it`.

## Rule

The live surface is whatever the work's success actually shows up on. Two
families, and the second is as binding as the first:

- an **external side effect** — a Linear ticket written, a deploy landed, a
  live mine hit, an external API called;
- the **user's own machine, session, or screen** — an e2e or Playwright suite,
  an Electron window, a popup on their desktop. A window opened on the user's
  machine is as real a side effect as a ticket write.

When the work under claim has live side effects:

- **Fixture ≠ live.** Unit tests, mocked fixtures, and UI registration Visual
  Proof do not prove the live path ran. Each layer proved separately is not
  the property proved.
- **Your own PR is not a receipt.** The number or the link of the pull request
  that carries this change names the change, not a run of it.
- **"I chose not to run it" is not a blocker.** A blocker is a thing that made
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/prove-it-ship-gate@sha256:f503fed0c07c7564

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260922.16dfdc7, 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_n4w52uxqiczabtfn.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_n4w52uxqiczabtfn)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 22, 2026, about one every 6 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260922.16dfdc7 latest2026-09-22 16dfdc7 2,981 BA view · diff
git:20260912.b38696f2026-09-12 b38696f 1,919 BA view · diff
git:20260911.28f750a2026-09-11 28f750a 1,888 BA view · diff
git:20260903.3e966e52026-09-03 3e966e5 1,904 BA view · diff
git:20260828.e3fdb822026-08-28 e3fdb82 1,507 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 (2981 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

edbertchan/catstack · 6 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n4w52uxqiczabtfn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/prove-it-ship-gate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f503fed0c07c75643b752514847b84d0c260a75ae9b64520f851900ab50ebf35

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