r-cran-status SKILL.md skillA
r-cran-status from posit-dev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add posit-dev/skills/r-cran-status@v1.1Pins v1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- posit-dev/skills
- Path
r-lib/r-cran-status/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.1, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 9,705 bytes
- Repository stars
- 556
- License
- MIT
Look up an R package's live status on cran.r-project.org - submission/review state (queue, human review, waiting, archived, past version's fate) or R CMD check results (OK/NOTE/WARN/ERROR per platform). Use for "what's the CRAN status of X", "did X get accepted/rejected", "is X passing CRAN checks", "when was version Y archived", "did win-builder get my package", "is win-builder processing my submission".
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
# CRAN Package Status
Check a package's submission/review state, a specific historical version's
fate (e.g. `{package} {version}`, as in `btw v1.4.0`), or its current
`R CMD check` results across CRAN's test platforms.
"CRAN status" is ambiguous between two questions:
- **Submission status**: is/was this package (or version) in review,
published, archived, or rejected? See "Submission Status".
- **Check results**: is the published version passing `R CMD check` on all
platforms, or does it have WARN/ERROR/NOTE flags risking removal? See
"Check Results".
CRAN's servers are a shared, unpaid resource. Never issue requests in
parallel or in a tight loop — pause briefly (e.g. `sleep 1`) between
requests, stop looping as soon as a match is found, and avoid re-fetching a
page you've already checked in this session.
## Workflow
1. Ask for the package name if not provided. A version may also be given
(e.g. `btw v1.4.0` or `btw 1.4.0`); strip any leading `v`.
2. Decide which question is being asked:
- Version given, or request mentions submission, review, the queue, or
rejection/archival → **Submission Status**.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add posit-dev/skills/r-cran-status@sha256:de903fbfb4d5e1dbThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1, 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_obsvhhgqvgmbsbwo)
4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 9, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1 latest | 2026-10-15 | 4400f97 | 9,705 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-09-09 | 6ef6595 | 7,676 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-09-09 | f2b5674 | 7,174 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-09-09 | 1ccf8a3 | 6,341 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 (9705 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
posit-dev/skills · 556 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_obsvhhgqvgmbsbwo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=posit-dev/skills/r-cran-status GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/de903fbfb4d5e1db340ce07c0313e6a3723c875ecdc858507fca28d7dd658eeb
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.