ripwire-reuse-first SKILL.md skillA
ripwire-reuse-first from redhat-et/ripwire is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add redhat-et/ripwire/ripwire-reuse-first@git:20260919.15dd125Pins git:20260919.15dd125 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- redhat-et/ripwire
- Path
skills/ripwire-reuse-first/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20260919.15dd125, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 5,334 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,530
- License
- Apache-2.0
About to write ONE symbol (even a 'quick' one-liner) or add a dependency: reuse before you reinvent. Finds the building block that already exists, the house pattern to imitate, the duplicate you'd recreate, a vendored dependency. An interface or whole feature → before-you-build. One --exemplar or --grep call at most.
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
# Reuse before you write > Routing — pick the right door: > • Starting a whole FEATURE (multi-symbol, needs a plan / interface / sizing) → **ripwire-before-you-build**. > • The cross-cutting *map-before-you-read* token discipline for any read → **ripwire-orient** (`map-before-you-read.md`). > • Judging whether what you wrote got better or worse before "done" → **ripwire-quality-bar**. > • Not sure which skill? → **ripwire-router**. The cheapest, simplest, most readable code is the code you don't write. Before authoring anything non-trivial, spend one `ripwire` call (on PATH) to find what already exists. ## Retrieve by ROLE, never by raw similarity This is the load-bearing rule, not a style preference: **similarity-retrieved "here's similar code, paste it" measurably HURTS** — up to **−15% Pass@1** (arXiv:2503.20589). What helps is API/type-signature context (+17-20%) and dependency-graph-structured retrieval (+6 EM; enabled 5/6 multi-file edits vs 0/6 without a graph). ripwire's shape — signatures + call-graph + role-ranked exemplars — is the validated retrieval shape; "find me a similar-looking snippet" is the anti-pattern to avoid, even …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add redhat-et/ripwire/ripwire-reuse-first@sha256:27337ea0b26d34d6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.15dd125, 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_pleqm4pe36p7dxpu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260919.15dd125 latest | 2026-09-19 | 15dd125 | 5,334 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.30a5a3c | 2026-09-13 | 30a5a3c | 5,179 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.29ae28d | 2026-09-10 | 29ae28d | 5,111 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.07aef5f | 2026-09-07 | 07aef5f | 5,097 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.9e1e9f9 | 2026-09-07 | 9e1e9f9 | 5,073 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.2395543 | 2026-09-05 | 2395543 | 5,762 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.9a729ad | 2026-08-05 | 9a729ad | 5,625 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 (5334 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
redhat-et/ripwire · 2,530 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pleqm4pe36p7dxpu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=redhat-et/ripwire/ripwire-reuse-first GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/27337ea0b26d34d68c1fc6e053fadeb631138c219b166707e357069ca364a6b2
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