critic-loop SKILL.md skillA
critic-loop from augchan42/inkstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/critic-loop@v1.2.0Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- augchan42/inkstone
- Path
skills/critic-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.2.0, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 25, 2026
- Size
- 13,409 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Run an independent critic loop on generated work that is not code or a plan — images, renders, ASCII or canvas art, video stills, frames and shorts, covers, copy. A fresh-context critic scores each round against a rubric written before round 1, starts with a blind read (it says what it sees before it is told what was intended), lists every gap, and the loop stops on a threshold, a stall rule or a round limit. Use when asked to "critic loop", "have a critic score this…
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
# Critic Loop An independent critic for generated work. The producer makes the work; a critic that has never seen the producer's reasoning judges it; the producer revises; the loop stops by rule, not by feel. **Core principle:** the producer's own check is not a review. An agent that drew a ram believes it drew a ram, and grades the picture with that belief. Only a critic that has not been told what the picture is can say whether it shows one. ## When to use, and when not - Use for anything whose quality is judged by looking or reading: stills, renders, contact sheets, video frames, covers, ASCII or canvas art, UI screenshots judged as pictures, captions, short copy. - Code changes: `codex-review`. Implementation plans: `plan-review-loop`. Whether code meets its intent: `verify-change`. - Skip it for a trivial change to work that already passed. Zero rounds is a valid outcome; say so. ## Lifecycle ``` rubric → round: packet → blind read → scored verdict → triage → revise → … → stop rule → report ``` Records live in `reviews/critic/<id>/` in the target repo: `rubric.md`, `round-<n>.md` per …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/critic-loop@sha256:62e14879827f85a1The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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 4 versions of this file, between Oct 25, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.2.0 latest | 2026-10-28 | 19d53e1 | 13,409 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2.0 | 2026-10-28 | e46ca49 | 13,402 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-28 | 78b1b97 | 13,112 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-25 | dc65c8e | 12,166 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 (13409 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
augchan42/inkstone · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_riarn2cd4iwe5ul5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=augchan42/inkstone/critic-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/62e14879827f85a13cb0bb321912f89611b77166feea9ae07fb007566eb3741b
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