dismiss-approval SKILL.md skillA

dismiss-approval from max-sixty/tend is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add max-sixty/tend/dismiss-approval@git:20261030.54fbddf

Pins git:20261030.54fbddf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
max-sixty/tend
Path
plugins/tend-ci-runner/skills/dismiss-approval/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261030.54fbddf, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 18, 2026
Size
1,791 bytes
Repository stars
43
License
MIT

Dismiss a standing bot approval. Use when you conclude that a PR the bot approved should not merge.

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

# Dismiss a standing bot approval the moment you conclude the PR shouldn't merge

A bot `APPROVED` keeps deciding the PR until a dismissal or a `CHANGES_REQUESTED` replaces it. A later `COMMENT` doesn't, and neither does the event that actually invalidated it: another PR merging and superseding this one, a dependency bump that turns this PR into a downgrade, an approach the thread has since rejected. None of those touch the approved PR, so no review round fires and the approval stands indefinitely — with nothing between it and a merge once the branch stops conflicting. Whichever session reaches the conclusion is the one that has to clear it, whether or not this session posts anything.

Keying the dismissal to a post is what leaves it standing: **Recheck before posting** in `/tend-ci-runner:post-to-github` rightly suppresses a second deferral comment when one already stands, and a dismissal that rides on that comment is suppressed with it. Dismiss on the conclusion, then say so in the summary — where this session does post a review carrying that conclusion, dismiss after the post lands, so a failed post doesn't leave the PR with neither a verdict nor findings.

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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add max-sixty/tend/dismiss-approval@sha256:13d643843738c019

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.54fbddf, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 18, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 21 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261030.54fbddf latest2026-10-30 54fbddf 1,791 BA view · diff
git:20260921.ff998602026-09-21 ff99860 1,829 BA view · diff
git:20260918.1ca04b22026-09-18 1ca04b2 1,827 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 (1791 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

max-sixty/tend · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nml6nyiilc25sn5r
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=max-sixty/tend/dismiss-approval
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/13d643843738c01953d1b5d2c5e367eaffbbaca5b570f2ff8d84f29230959074

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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