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independent-verification skillA

independent-verification is agent-read markdown (skill) from d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook: Independent, read-only verification workflow for consequential AI-generated changes. Use when security, IAM, production infrastructure, destructive migrations, broad architecture, sensitive data, financial logic, or explicit assurance requirements need a verifier distinct from the implementing model or tool. Binds verdicts to an immutable commit and diff hash, requires deterministic evidence first, treats AI verdicts as advisory, and escalates stale targets, disagreement, uncertainty, and high-r.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/independent-verification@git:20260819.d23bb73
Exact content
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/independent-verification@sha256:eecc2bb044bd78d2

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

Badge

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260819.d23bb73 latest2026-08-19 d23bb73 12,395 BA view · diff
git:20260814.c9b9c202026-08-14 c9b9c20 12,445 BA view

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 (12395 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

d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n5udjn3o5pjglckl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/independent-verification
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eecc2bb044bd78d20031cc9bd12a12f940d9d91b1e32a758f228daa04337bbc2

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