vibe-scope-guard SKILL.md skillA
vibe-scope-guard from ash1794/vibe-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-scope-guard@git:20260925.f6554ffPins git:20260925.f6554ff in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ash1794/vibe-engineering
- Path
plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-scope-guard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260925.f6554ff, committed Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 2,821 bytes
- Repository stars
- 165
- License
- MIT
Detects and redirects scope creep during implementation — unrequested features, drive-by refactors, premature abstraction, and over-engineering. Use while implementing, especially when a change is growing beyond the original request.
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
# vibe-scope-guard The best code is the code you don't write. Frontier coding models tend to over-build: extra configurability, defensive layers, helpers "for later." Stay on what was asked. ## When to Use This Skill - During any implementation task - When you notice you're "improving" code that wasn't in the request - When the diff is noticeably larger than the request implies - When you're about to create an abstraction "for later" ## When NOT to Use This Skill - During brainstorming (ideas should be unconstrained) - When the user explicitly asks for broad improvements - When the extra work is necessary for correctness (a bug in the code path you're changing) ## Scope Creep Signals | Signal | Example | Response | |--------|---------|----------| | Unrequested features | "While I'm here, let me add caching" | Was caching requested? | | Premature abstraction | "Let me create a generic helper for this" | Is there a second caller today? | | Gold plating | "Comprehensive error messages for every case" | Only at system boundaries | | Drive-by refactor | "This function could be cleaner" | Not in this change | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-scope-guard@sha256:898935793bc172fdThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.f6554ff, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 25, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ash1794/vibe-engineering · 165 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s5u3d662fk7embzu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-scope-guard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/898935793bc172fd4504151b8c937742be75175c4a9bfcd746cfef2682190ddd
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