reflect SKILL.md skillA

reflect from edbertchan/catstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/reflect@git:20261022.2f286a3

Pins git:20261022.2f286a3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
edbertchan/catstack
Path
engine/skills/reflect/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261022.2f286a3, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 24, 2026
Size
28,330 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
none declared

Mine a conversation transcript — and the commit history of the files it touched — for durable learnings, then route Accepted items into concrete skill/code edits via an auto-spawned worktree in the repo that owns the named skill + PR (never merge). Working-style preferences route to the sibling skill automate-me, not a task skill edit. User involvement, forced restatement, "you fucked up/messed up", or the same type of complaint twice is a FAILURE that orders the pass; lesson_route.py decides…

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

# Reflect

## Write roots (ecosystem)

Accepted **skill prose** lands in the repo that already **owns the named
skill** — not exclusively `corpus/skills/`. Determine ownership first:

- The finding names a `corpus/`, `engine/`, or `product/` skill, or is
  working-style output: the owning repo is catstack. Write under
  `corpus/skills/` (working-style via `automate-me` →
  `corpus/skills/<handle>-mode/`), same as before. Personal mode plus
  catstack engine/corpus/product **always** write only to catstack —
  this never changes regardless of what else the finding touches.
- The finding names a skill owned by another checkout (for example an
  Invoker-only skill): the owning repo is that external checkout. Apply
  there instead, in a worktree of that owning checkout, and never merge —
  external apply is never-merge in the owning checkout only. Never copy
  `engine/skills/reflect` itself into another repo; only the applied
  finding travels, not the reflect machinery.

New mechanical hooks still land under `engine/hooks/` (catstack-only).
See [docs/ecosystem.md](../../../docs/ecosystem.md).
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add edbertchan/catstack/reflect@sha256:6091dbf9b37f120c

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.2f286a3, 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 10 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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git:20261022.2f286a3 latest2026-10-22 2f286a3 28,330 BA view · diff
git:20261022.00125b72026-10-22 00125b7 27,841 BA view · diff
git:20261022.45091a72026-10-22 45091a7 27,150 BA view · diff
git:20261022.b074c502026-10-22 b074c50 26,416 BA view · diff
git:20261011.a9995b32026-10-11 a9995b3 24,794 BA view · diff
git:20260925.c7edd262026-09-25 c7edd26 22,827 BA view · diff
git:20260925.e13a8272026-09-25 e13a827 21,564 BA view · diff
git:20260924.e31f0d02026-09-24 e31f0d0 21,275 BA view · diff
git:20260924.898f8802026-09-24 898f880 21,205 BA view · diff
git:20260924.0c82ce82026-09-24 0c82ce8 21,085 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 (28330 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

edbertchan/catstack · 6 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ryv2wmoghermhb7o
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=edbertchan/catstack/reflect
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6091dbf9b37f120c7f3cb07ede40d4ac48170a2f62226c245c2966f23e3ea7a7

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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