differential-feature-refactor SKILL.md skillA
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differential-feature-refactor from arasz/ai-badger is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arasz/ai-badger/differential-feature-refactor@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arasz/ai-badger
- Path
features/common/skills/differential-feature-refactor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 12,404 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when a feature already exists in code but has drifted from — or was never reconciled with — its intended design, and someone must decide what changes before a refactor is scoped. Triggers: two parallel implementations of the same thing, code that reads as dead but may be a ratified extension point, an architecture nobody can tell from accumulated cruft, or a refactor about to be scoped off review documents instead of decisions.
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
# Differential Feature Refactor Produce a **differential document** — a side-by-side of *what we have* versus *what we will have* — that a human annotates, and that then becomes the input to a refactor specification and an implementation plan. **Why this exists.** A ratified architecture — an interface with an ADR behind it — was reimplemented in parallel 36 minutes after it landed, with no ADR of its own. Five days later the original read as "dead code" and was nearly deleted, which would have destroyed both a live integration path and a requirement-level extension point. Twenty-plus documents described that architecture and at least one described it falsely. Nobody could tell design intent from accumulated cruft. This skill makes the difference legible **before** someone acts on it. ## The one rule that matters **Never infer design intent from code shape.** Requirements (`FR-`/`NFR-`), ADRs, and recorded rulings are the *only* authority on intent. Code is evidence of what was built, never of what was meant. Review docs and plans are proposals, not authority. Establish the authority set **before** reading any implementation. If a thing in the tree has …
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How to install
mdr add arasz/ai-badger/differential-feature-refactor@sha256:d2c2850b1638a5e5The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 31, 2026 and Aug 8, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-08-08 | 9006bf5 | 12,404 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-07 | 013ee4d | 12,389 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-01 | 7c8a648 | 12,376 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-01 | a361ae8 | 11,930 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-31 | e49c165 | 11,383 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 (12404 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
arasz/ai-badger · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ppmghgthh7mjybk6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arasz/ai-badger/differential-feature-refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d2c2850b1638a5e50f6651a53d26a90256ed3661c3ad70d91cba28e7a34b3fcc
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