fest-methodology SKILL.md skillA
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fest-methodology from obedience-corp/festival is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- obedience-corp/festival
- Path
plugins/festival/skills/fest-methodology/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260819.7dcf2e2, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 8, 2026
- Size
- 1,912 bytes
- Repository stars
- 83
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user mentions festivals, the fest CLI, phases, sequences, or tasks, or when working inside a `festivals/` directory. Provides the core Festival methodology model so Claude understands the planning system.
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
# Festival Methodology
Festival Methodology is a goal-oriented project management system for human-AI development workflows. It replaces sprints, story points, and time estimates with **steps to goals**.
## Core Concepts
- **Festivals**: Top-level project containers with a specific goal
- **Phases**: Major stages (planning, implementation, review), prefixed `NNN_` (e.g., `001_PLAN/`)
- **Sequences**: Ordered groups of related tasks within a phase, prefixed `NN_` (e.g., `01_setup/`)
- **Tasks**: Atomic work units as markdown files, prefixed `NN_` (e.g., `01_create_schema.md`)
## Hierarchy
```
Festival
└── Phase (NNN_UPPER_CASE/)
└── Sequence (NN_lower_snake_case/)
└── Task (NN_lower_snake_case.md)
```
## Lifecycle
```
planning/ → ready/ → active/ → dungeon/completed/
```
## Key CLI Commands
```bash
fest understand methodology # Learn the methodology
fest create festival # Create a new festival
fest next # Get next actionable task
fest task completed # Mark task done
fest commit -m "msg" # Commit with festival traceability
fest validate # Check structure
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add obedience-corp/festival/fest-methodology@sha256:64d8052fd3c53a71The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.7dcf2e2, 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 2 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 41 days.
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| git:20260819.7dcf2e2 latest | 2026-08-19 | 7dcf2e2 | 1,912 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260708.6f2ebe9 | 2026-07-08 | 6f2ebe9 | 1,923 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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- 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
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- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
obedience-corp/festival · 83 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
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