band-aid-finder SKILL.md skillA
band-aid-finder from jerseycheese/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/band-aid-finder@git:20261016.04e815bPins git:20261016.04e815b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jerseycheese/agent-skills
- Path
skills/band-aid-finder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261016.04e815b, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 6,518 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Finds fixes that hide a symptom instead of fixing the cause, traces each to its root cause, and proposes the real fix. Allows deliberate, documented mitigations. Trigger on: "is this a real fix or a band-aid", "am I treating the symptom", "why does this keep happening", "find the root cause".
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
# Band-Aid Finder A band-aid stops the bleeding without treating the wound: the symptom disappears, the defect stays, and it resurfaces later or somewhere else. This skill finds those fixes, traces the symptom back to its cause, and pushes to the fix that actually resolves it — while still allowing a *deliberate, documented* mitigation when a root-cause fix genuinely isn't the right move right now. This is the counterweight to `kiss`. KISS argues against a fix more complex than the problem needs; this skill argues against a fix so simple it only hides the symptom. The target is the simplest fix that still reaches the cause — neither the smallest diff nor the largest refactor. ## Process 1. **Identify the symptom and the fix.** What visible problem is being addressed, and what does the change actually do? 2. **Trace to the root cause.** Follow the symptom back to *why* it occurs. Confirm the cause by reproducing it or reading the code path — don't assert it from a guess. (This is squarely `evidence-check` territory: "the root cause is X" is an Unverified claim until you've read the path or run the repro this session. Naming a plausible cause is not confirming it.) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/band-aid-finder@sha256:a05d07f057eb8695The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.04e815b, 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_nijr7lac4fwg3r5m)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 22 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261016.04e815b latest | 2026-10-16 | 04e815b | 6,518 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.1c7b8ab | 2026-09-01 | 1c7b8ab | 6,906 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.dc1ba0c | 2026-09-01 | dc1ba0c | 6,557 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 (6518 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
jerseycheese/agent-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nijr7lac4fwg3r5m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jerseycheese/agent-skills/band-aid-finder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a05d07f057eb86951b173deb2843370f7d2c08b48c71e79ffaba4174c01c040d
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.