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software-lifecycle from inkeep/open-knowledge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add inkeep/open-knowledge/software-lifecycle@git:20261014.adeb8b5

Pins git:20261014.adeb8b5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: inkeep/open-knowledge
Path: packages/server/assets/skills/packs/software-lifecycle/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 6
Latest version: git:20261014.adeb8b5, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 26, 2026
Size: 4,794 bytes
Repository stars: 4,635
License: GPL-3.0

How to work in a Software Lifecycle project (the `software-lifecycle` starter pack): proposals → decisions → specs → postmortems, plus guides. Read when the project has these folders, or when asked how this project is organized. Carries the doc lifecycle, status flows, and per-folder agent behaviors so that guidance does not live inside template bodies or folder descriptions. The five workflows — frame a proposal, write a spec, record a decision, write a postmortem, review a design — each ship…

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

# Software Lifecycle pack — how to work here

This project holds the doc lifecycle for an engineering team or OSS project. The flow is **proposals → decisions → specs → postmortems**, with **guides** as the how-to bucket. This skill holds the workflow so templates and folder descriptions stay clean.

> This skill is pack guidance. The platform `/open-knowledge` skill (read/write/preview/linking/grounding rules) still governs every markdown operation — this layers the lifecycle conventions on top.

## The flow

```
proposals/    in-flight RFC-shape design proposals
   ↓ accepted
decisions/    frozen ADRs (the record of what was decided)
   ↓ derived
specs/        implementation specs for accepted proposals
   ↓ when things break
postmortems/  blameless incident write-ups
guides/       how-to / onboarding / runbooks (referenced throughout)
```

## Per-folder rules + agent behaviors
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add inkeep/open-knowledge/software-lifecycle@sha256:e49d561c6d472db8

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.adeb8b5, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_qj6gjehwsxkbrklb.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qj6gjehwsxkbrklb)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 26, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 22 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261014.adeb8b5 latest	2026-10-14	adeb8b5	4,794 B	A	view · diff
git:20260813.12a6ea2	2026-08-13	12a6ea2	4,773 B	A	view · diff
git:20260805.f3f8da4	2026-08-05	f3f8da4	4,806 B	A	view · diff
git:20260804.8471ed3	2026-08-04	8471ed3	4,800 B	A	view · diff
git:20260731.e3d6ce5	2026-07-31	e3d6ce5	5,008 B	A	view · diff
v0.18.0	2026-06-26	72ecc9c	3,648 B	A	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 (4794 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

inkeep/open-knowledge · 4,635 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qj6gjehwsxkbrklb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=inkeep/open-knowledge/software-lifecycle
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e49d561c6d472db8804113d2cdd7f24eb329c93049322990f2fccbe948533fdb

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