cold-review SKILL.md skillA
cold-review from cotal-ai/cotal is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/cold-review@git:20260828.4605050Pins git:20260828.4605050 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cotal-ai/cotal
- Path
.claude/skills/cold-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260828.4605050, committed Aug 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 16,934 bytes
- Repository stars
- 380
- License
- Apache-2.0
Write the brief for a single independent cold reviewer and grade what it returns, keeping it isolated from the panel that already graded the change. Read by whoever AUTHORS the brief; the graded seat never loads this file. Covers what the seat is given, what its verdict binds, who may override it, and how the rules degrade when the vendor set is short. Use when a panel has reached consensus and you want a second opinion consensus cannot anchor, when a change is security-sensitive or hard to…
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
# Cold review A cold reviewer is not an extra panelist. It is a **control on the panel**. A panel converges. Reviewers read each other, findings get confirmed by seats already looking in the same direction, and the group arrives somewhere with more confidence than any member earned alone. That convergence is usually right, which is why it is dangerous when it is wrong: a panel of three has approved a head carrying a defect all three missed, and what surfaced it was a differently framed read, not a fourth verifier. **This file is read by the person who WRITES the brief, not by the seat being briefed.** The value is in the brief, not in the seat's context. A cold seat that never loaded a skill file, never joined the mesh and received nothing but a persona has produced three blockers that two fully-briefed lenses missed. So nothing here requires the graded seat to have access to this document, and no rule below may be written so that it does. ## The isolation - **Never joins the review channel.** Not muted, not quiet. Not joined. - **Never shown the panel's findings**, verdict, or round count, including as a list of things …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/cold-review@sha256:d18996604dbe14cbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.4605050, 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_qf4ovc3hkrfmm43n)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 28, 2026.
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| git:20260828.4605050 latest | 2026-08-28 | 4605050 | 16,934 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.6368461 | 2026-08-28 | 6368461 | 16,574 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.ad68510 | 2026-08-28 | ad68510 | 16,221 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.4bcbc44 | 2026-08-28 | 4bcbc44 | 15,810 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.def97ba | 2026-08-28 | def97ba | 15,610 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 (16934 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
cotal-ai/cotal · 380 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qf4ovc3hkrfmm43n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cotal-ai/cotal/cold-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d18996604dbe14cb0f0b678fb6c776b9173bcca50f85cd0b50f2496e6f1ca4b5
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.