repo-maintainer SKILL.md skillA

repo-maintainer from wolfe-jam/faf-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add wolfe-jam/faf-skills/repo-maintainer@git:20261025.680ca44

Pins git:20261025.680ca44 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wolfe-jam/faf-skills
Path
skills/repo-maintainer/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261025.680ca44, committed Oct 25, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 3, 2026
Size
11,470 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Audits leftover test artifacts, dependencies, CI workflows, docs that have drifted from the code, git hygiene and FAF alignment, then writes a cleanup plan ordered by impact. Use when someone wants a repository cleaned up or checked: "clean up this repo", "audit the repo", "health check before the release". Changes nothing without approval.

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

<!-- faf:start -->
```yaml
v: 1
needs: [git, "npx (for depcheck and npm outdated)", "faf-cli, for the FAF alignment check"]
reads: [the repository, dependencies, CI workflows, docs, git history]
writes:
  - "the health report and the cleanup plan"
  - "approved changes only, after an explicit yes"
network: ["registry.npmjs.org (read: depcheck, npm outdated)"]
publishes: false
done_when: "the health report and the cleanup plan, ordered by impact, are written; nothing changed without approval"
project: project.faf
```
<!-- faf:end -->

# Repo Maintainer - Championship Repository Hygiene

**"When brakes must work flawlessly, so must our repos."**

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## When to Use This Skill

Activate when:
- User types `/repo-maintainer`
- User says "clean up this repo" or "audit the repo"
- Starting maintenance on a repository
- After major refactoring or before releases
- Monthly/quarterly repo health checks
- Onboarding to a new codebase

## What This Skill Does

### **Phase 1: Comprehensive Audit**

Systematically checks 7 critical areas:

#### 1. **Artifact Detection**
```bash
# Find test artifacts
*.test.js leftovers
*.spec.ts.snap orphans
.DS_Store files
tmp/, temp/, cache/ directories
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wolfe-jam/faf-skills/repo-maintainer@sha256:a260d68c473e4edd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.680ca44, 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_pu3n72uqlqasy4s4.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pu3n72uqlqasy4s4)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 4 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261025.680ca44 latest2026-10-25 680ca44 11,470 BA view · diff
git:20261023.81921832026-10-23 8192183 10,930 BA view · diff
git:20261021.06503902026-10-21 0650390 10,822 BA view · diff
git:20261021.82914472026-10-21 8291447 10,873 BA view · diff
git:20261003.1d7246b2026-10-03 1d7246b 10,765 BA view · diff
git:20261003.6052df32026-10-03 6052df3 10,835 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 (11470 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

wolfe-jam/faf-skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pu3n72uqlqasy4s4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wolfe-jam/faf-skills/repo-maintainer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a260d68c473e4edd7f970bfb45e4391157ca027ff206d7c15274f1ea9aca7404

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