swe:change-validation-planner SKILL.md skillA
swe:change-validation-planner from ckorhonen/swe-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:change-validation-planner@git:20260404.9370c32Pins git:20260404.9370c32 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ckorhonen/swe-skills
- Path
skills/change-validation-planner/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260404.9370c32, committed Apr 4, 2026
- Size
- 6,066 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Plans the narrowest trustworthy validation path for a scoped code change or diff. Use when a user asks what to run before merging, how to validate a specific change, whether the current checks are enough, or wants a bounded command order from narrow to broad. Do NOT use for writing tests, fixing the code change itself, broad QA sweeps, or generic debugging that needs root cause analysis.
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
# SWE Change Validation Planner ## What This Skill Does Use this skill to turn a scoped code change into a disciplined validation plan. The job is not to debug the change or rewrite tests. The job is to decide: - what evidence is already enough - what to validate first - what to validate only if the earlier checks fail or remain ambiguous - what remains unverified even after the recommended checks The result should help an engineer or agent validate a change without wasting time on broad, low-signal commands. ## When To Use Use this skill when the user wants to: - know what to run before merging a scoped change - validate a diff, PR, or local edit with the smallest trustworthy command set - compare narrow versus broad validation options - understand what a change still does not prove - plan a repeatable validation sequence for a specific repository surface ## Do Not Use Do not use this skill for: - implementing the code change itself - writing or expanding tests as the primary task - generic QA across the whole repo with no scoped change - root-cause debugging when the failure cause is still unknown - architecture planning or release orchestration ## Inputs To Confirm …
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How to install
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:change-validation-planner@sha256:7592bcb1132a15e1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260404.9370c32, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 4, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No script tag
Source
ckorhonen/swe-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pwuubhktt7x5yfw7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:change-validation-planner GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7592bcb1132a15e1efab23579f8fc080f1081324363b12ba02f5b1a76597fd4e
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