review-gate SKILL.md skillA

review-gate from arminzou/dotbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arminzou/dotbrain/review-gate@git:20261017.5b1062d

Pins git:20261017.5b1062d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
arminzou/dotbrain
Path
plugin/skills/review-gate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261017.5b1062d, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 8, 2026
Size
6,859 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Run a durable engineering review gate with focused code, simplification, or readiness review.

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

# Review Gate

Turn a review into a durable gate without claiming that all review methods answer the same question.
The review bead is the lifecycle record; read [the shared contract](../manage-work-graph/references/review-beads.md)
before creating or resuming one.

## Choose the mode

| Mode | Target and question | Engine |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `code` | A diff, commit, branch, PR, or working tree: is it correct and in scope? | A read-only `reviewer` agent that authored none of the changes; native `/review` when available. |
| `simplify` | The same target: what can be deleted, collapsed, or replaced with a native capability? | An independent reviewer using the bundled [simplification procedure](references/simplify.md). This is not a correctness review. |
| `readiness` | A subsystem before a milestone: is it sound enough to build the next thing on? | [Readiness procedure](references/readiness.md), always multi-pass. |

The requester supplies the mode, target/range, and the outcome that the review gates. Do not widen a
code review into readiness review, or report simplification findings as defects.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arminzou/dotbrain/review-gate@sha256:4814cbc9ec1ae9ba

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.5b1062d, 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

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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git:20261008.32c94432026-10-08 32c9443 5,740 BA view · diff
git:20261008.8671cf22026-10-08 8671cf2 4,007 BA view · diff
git:20261008.9e75a9b2026-10-08 9e75a9b 5,509 BA view · diff
git:20261008.c9b28652026-10-08 c9b2865 5,386 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 (6859 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

arminzou/dotbrain · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_new6j6wwokx72yhf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arminzou/dotbrain/review-gate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4814cbc9ec1ae9ba52acbeda3b731ba40cd3fb2e03c39d1df23cb9446bc481a0

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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