review-design SKILL.md skillA
review-design from urmzd/dotfiles is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add urmzd/dotfiles/review-design@git:20260530.d3be4ddPins git:20260530.d3be4dd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- urmzd/dotfiles
- Path
dot_agents/skills/review-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260530.d3be4dd, committed May 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 8, 2026
- Size
- 8,203 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- Apache-2.0
Pragmatic Programmer principles: DRY, orthogonality, ETC, reversibility, tracer bullets, design by contract, decoupling/Law of Demeter, pragmatic paranoia. The 'why' layer between assess-quality (framework) and write-code (operational). Use when reasoning about design tradeoffs, coupling, or whether a decision is reversible. Do NOT use for the underlying quality framework (use assess-quality) or for concrete tool/idiom/library picks (use write-code).
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
# Pragmatic Programming > **Layering:** Principles layer above `assess-quality` (foundational framework) and are operationalized by `write-code` (tool/pattern picks). Use this skill when reasoning about *why* a design tradeoff matters; use `assess-quality` for the underlying quality framework; use `write-code` for concrete picks. Principles from *The Pragmatic Programmer* (Hunt & Thomas) distilled into actionable rules for everyday development. ## Core Philosophy - **Care about your craft** why spend your life developing software unless you care about doing it well? - **Think critically** question assumptions, challenge "because we've always done it that way" - **Be a catalyst for change** show people a future they can rally around (stone soup) - **Remember the big picture** don't get so absorbed in details that you forget the system as a whole (boiling frog) - **Good enough software** know when to stop; perfect is the enemy of shipped ## ETC: Easy to Change The fundamental design principle. Every decision should make future change easier. - When choosing between approaches, pick the one that's easier to change later …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add urmzd/dotfiles/review-design@sha256:f967daa43a2ac4fcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260530.d3be4dd, 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_qx3ak5sjna5hitsx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 8, 2026 and May 30, 2026, about one every 26 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260530.d3be4dd latest | 2026-05-30 | d3be4dd | 8,203 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260529.9238f59 | 2026-05-29 | 9238f59 | 8,024 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260408.a08708c | 2026-04-08 | a08708c | 7,627 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 (8203 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
urmzd/dotfiles · 5 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qx3ak5sjna5hitsx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=urmzd/dotfiles/review-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f967daa43a2ac4fc400135a5a2b8fa4bd6e9557d9e3289b72c628ff77b458e35
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