cold-review skillA
cold-review is agent-read markdown (skill) from cotal-ai/cotal: 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 reve.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/cold-review@git:20260828.4605050mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/cold-review@sha256:d18996604dbe14cbPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qf4ovc3hkrfmm43n)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 · 289 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-17 · 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
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