chisle-review SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/chisle-review@git:20260728.f024119

Pins git:20260728.f024119 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jaypokale/chisle
Path
skills/chisle-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260728.f024119, committed Jul 28, 2026
Size
1,448 bytes
Repository stars
738
License
MIT

Review a diff or file through the Chisle lens: flag over-engineering, speculative abstractions, reinvented stdlib, and verbose code that a lazier approach would shrink. One finding per line, no praise. Use when the user says "chisle review", "review this for bloat", or invokes /chisle-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

# Chisle review

Review the diff/file for **what could be deleted or simplified**, not for style nits.

## What to flag

- Abstraction with one implementation (interface/factory/wrapper for a single case)
- Reinvented stdlib (hand-rolled debounce, deep-clone, groupBy, date math)
- New dependency for what a few lines or an installed dep already does
- Config/option that never varies
- Speculative "for later" scaffolding with no current caller
- Verbose code where a native platform feature (CSS, DB constraint, `<input type>`) does it

## What NOT to flag

- Input validation at trust boundaries
- Error handling that prevents data loss
- Security / accessibility code
- Anything the task explicitly required

## Output format

One finding per line. No preamble, no praise.

```
path:line: <what's over-built>. <the lazier replacement>.
```

Example:

```
cache.js:12: ApiCacheManager class for one call site. Replace with lru_cache / a Map.
search.js:40: hand-rolled debounce util. setTimeout+clearTimeout inline is enough.
```

End with a one-line verdict: `N findings. Est. <X> lines removable.`

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/chisle-review@sha256:f3401d3fd7004bf3

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.f024119, 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_o6fxvtmg675k3oce.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_o6fxvtmg675k3oce)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260728.f024119 latest2026-07-28 f024119 1,448 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 (1448 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

jaypokale/chisle · 738 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o6fxvtmg675k3oce
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaypokale/chisle/chisle-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f3401d3fd7004bf3d74f87f7e4cbe0fea5c1dbed3b5c0e6a916ef7bd67162b91

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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