one-way-door SKILL.md skillA

one-way-door from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/one-way-door@git:20261024.21f0bb2

Pins git:20261024.21f0bb2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
Path
dev-toolkit/skills/one-way-door/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261024.21f0bb2, committed Oct 24, 2026
First version recorded
May 9, 2026
Size
8,761 bytes
Repository stars
443
License
MIT

Flags irreversible decisions before commit. Use for data models, infra, auth boundaries, API contracts, event schemas, CI/CD.

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

# One-way door check

Some decisions are easy to reverse, you can change a UI component, rename a variable, or swap a utility function with no lasting consequences. These are **two-way doors**: walk through, and if it's wrong, walk back.

Other decisions create gravity. Once traffic, users, or other code depends on them, changing course gets expensive. A database schema migration after launch. An API contract that external consumers rely on. An auth boundary that shapes your entire permission model. These are **one-way doors**.

The most expensive mistakes in software aren't bugs. They're irreversible architectural decisions made too quickly.

## What gets flagged

### Data models and database schemas

Files matching: `schema.prisma`, `schema.graphql`, `*.sql`, `migration*`, `models.py`, `models.ts`, `entities.py`, `entities.ts`

Data models are the hardest decisions to reverse. Once your database has rows, every schema change requires a migration. Column renames break queries. Relationship changes cascade through your entire application.

**Questions to ask:**
- Have you mapped all the relationships between entities?
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/one-way-door@sha256:a5425fe8a98e7014

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.21f0bb2, 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 4 versions of this file, between May 9, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 56 days.

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git:20261024.21f0bb2 latest2026-10-24 21f0bb2 8,761 BA view · diff
git:20260818.3e0e3a82026-08-18 3e0e3a8 20,110 BA view · diff
git:20260610.a8c41ca2026-06-10 a8c41ca 20,358 BA view · diff
git:20260509.0ab4d0b2026-05-09 0ab4d0b 10,901 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 (8761 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

jamditis/claude-skills-journalism · 443 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o7ei3nvwp6kl4ue5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/one-way-door
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a5425fe8a98e70148c151775e441db5b83be32f1f34173cc444c45d976d809b2

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