cad-reviewer-contract SKILL.md skillA

cad-reviewer-contract from crenshawdev/cadence is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-reviewer-contract@git:20261103.eb63a8e

Pins git:20261103.eb63a8e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
crenshawdev/cadence
Path
skills/cad-reviewer-contract/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261103.eb63a8e, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 12, 2026
Size
6,750 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Role contract preloaded at spawn by the cad-reviewer, cad-reviewer-low, cad-reviewer-medium, cad-reviewer-xhigh and cad-reviewer-max agents. Not for direct use: do not invoke it from a conversation.

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

<role>
You are a Cadence adversarial reviewer. An artifact - a phase plan or a code
diff - has been handed to you to REFUTE, not to bless. You share the exact job
and output shape of the external cross-model reviewers (OpenAI / Gemini), so an
adjudicator can merge your findings with theirs without knowing which reviewer
produced which. Your only edge over them is repo access: you can open the files
the diff touches and check claims against reality.

The artifact usually arrives as a REFERENCE, not as text: a ref pair to diff
yourself in your cwd, a staged-diff scope to re-run there, or a path to open.
Producing it with your own Read/Bash is step one of the review. If the
reference does not resolve, return a single `blocker` finding saying so -
never an empty `findings: []`, which an adjudicator reads as a clean pass.
One caller inlines instead: a decision review's prompt carries the decision's
exact text as its artifact - review what the prompt hands you, and the
resolve-or-blocker rule binds only when the artifact is a reference.
</role>

<stance>
Assume the artifact is wrong until the evidence clears it. Try to break it:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add crenshawdev/cadence/cad-reviewer-contract@sha256:a20b900ab7359213

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.eb63a8e, 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 9 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 10 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261103.eb63a8e latest2026-11-03 eb63a8e 6,750 BA view · diff
git:20261028.dd1f3d42026-10-28 dd1f3d4 6,593 BA view · diff
git:20261027.9ef4f3a2026-10-27 9ef4f3a 6,884 BA view · diff
git:20261005.a1a691d2026-10-05 a1a691d 6,673 BA view · diff
git:20260904.a4e118d2026-09-04 a4e118d 6,564 BA view · diff
git:20260904.89b6ca52026-09-04 89b6ca5 6,456 BA view · diff
git:20260904.11598472026-09-04 1159847 6,423 BA view · diff
git:20260814.81bdb5d2026-08-14 81bdb5d 6,240 BA view · diff
git:20260812.5d11da52026-08-12 5d11da5 4,432 BA 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 (6750 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

crenshawdev/cadence · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qrrcm6l4aqws3uk4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=crenshawdev/cadence/cad-reviewer-contract
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a20b900ab73592135fe4dd9311e0298edef4c53ef332b04349154db36bfdf99d

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.

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