repo-quality-system-lifecycle SKILL.md skillA

repo-quality-system-lifecycle from arenukvern/skill_steward is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arenukvern/skill_steward/repo-quality-system-lifecycle@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
arenukvern/skill_steward
Path
skills/repo-quality-system-lifecycle/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 23, 2026
Size
24,285 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Establish or audit an agent-operated repository's quality contract or recurring stewardship friction. Skip routine repairs with a known owner and native check. Use for charter/docs ownership, validation gates, evidence paths, maturity proof, consumer/producer boundaries, command-surface evolution, or a repo ecology pass to decide what should be compressed, merged, retired, or moved to checks.

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

# Repo Quality System Lifecycle

## Concept bridge (read before procedural steps)

Skill Steward procedures assume three portable lenses. If you only have this skill installed, load the digests in `references/` (they ship with the skill). Full essays live on docs.page.

| Lens | One-line | When to apply | Digest | Full |
|------|----------|---------------|--------|------|
| **Engineering Stewardship** | Keep the repo ecology understandable and improvable via observe → decide → update → prove → preserve | Friction repeats or survives one session | [stewardship-loop.md](references/stewardship-loop.md) | [docs.page](https://docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward/core/stewardship-loop) · [North Star](https://docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward/NORTH_STAR) |
| **Evolutionary simplicity** | Evolve toward lower future confusion (split / compress / promote / demote / delete / stay native) — not always fewer parts | Before adding, splitting, merging, or deleting a surface | [evolutionary-simplicity.md](references/evolutionary-simplicity.md) | [docs.page](https://docs.page/arenukvern/skill_steward/core/evolutionary-simplicity) |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arenukvern/skill_steward/repo-quality-system-lifecycle@sha256:36836a08a95e4123

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_rqna5mm2loepaky3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rqna5mm2loepaky3)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 23, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 4 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-10-17 9c3e7cb 24,285 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-17 e2a44ad 24,283 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-23 3fda7d3 23,152 BA view · diff
git:20260923.4b61a7f2026-09-23 4b61a7f 25 BC view · diff
git:20260923.75890c42026-09-23 75890c4 26 BC view · diff
git:20260923.1324eba2026-09-23 1324eba 25 BC view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-23 23a4a8e 23,062 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 (24285 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

arenukvern/skill_steward · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rqna5mm2loepaky3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arenukvern/skill_steward/repo-quality-system-lifecycle
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/36836a08a95e412372bd6a3f7b90dd1f26af7a268d3c79bb63460ad1f41815b4

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