antislop-codebase SKILL.md skillA
antislop-codebase from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/antislop-codebase@git:20260928.efe5ce6Pins git:20260928.efe5ce6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
antislop-codebase/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260928.efe5ce6, committed Sep 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 6,420 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Diagnose or execute an explicit repository-wide maintainability cleanup while preserving behavior. Use only when the user asks to antislop a codebase, clean up an overgrown repository, plan or run a substantial structural migration, or audit maintainability across a repo. Do not trigger for ordinary feature refactors, a single large file, routine type improvements, adding regression tests, or broader production-readiness work.
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
# Antislop Codebase Use this skill to reduce demonstrated maintenance cost while keeping current behavior essentially as-is. Do not impose a universal "product-shaped" architecture. ## Boundary This skill is for demonstrated structural maintainability problems such as unclear ownership, harmful coupling, repeated logic, or repository-wide migration debt. Do not expand the scope into a full production-readiness initiative. Observability/logging programs, security reviews, compliance, incident response, SLOs, runbooks, secrets posture, penetration testing, and deep reliability engineering belong in separate follow-on skills unless the user explicitly asks to include a small enabling change. ## Operating Principles - Preserve behavior first. Improve architecture in thin, reversible slices. - Ground every decision in repo facts: file sizes, dependency graph, tests, runtime shape, API surfaces, user workflows, deployment limits, and current dirty worktree. - Prefer deletion and direct code over new layers. Add an abstraction only when it removes demonstrated duplication, isolates a volatile boundary, or clarifies ownership. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/antislop-codebase@sha256:6042a2dcce1b0ef6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260928.efe5ce6, 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_q3ms2b4vmdrpjbfj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026, about one every 64 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260928.efe5ce6 latest | 2026-09-28 | efe5ce6 | 6,420 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.02acf6b | 2026-08-09 | 02acf6b | 6,432 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.8968c77 | 2026-05-22 | 8968c77 | 6,952 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 (6420 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q3ms2b4vmdrpjbfj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/antislop-codebase GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6042a2dcce1b0ef69a3475ec3a9d0e986354b9f90625cbe0c58612801eca50b8
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