gates SKILL.md skillA
gates from higoralves/orc is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add higoralves/orc/gates@git:20261024.5813265Pins git:20261024.5813265 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- higoralves/orc
- Path
orc/skills/gates/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261024.5813265, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 6, 2026
- Size
- 5,470 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
The canonical AskUserQuestion conventions for every orc gate — class-tagged header chips, Recommended-first options, side-by-side `preview` for preview-then-confirm, multiSelect chunking, notes as the rewrite channel, and the --auto ladder.
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
# Gates Every orc gate is ONE `AskUserQuestion` call shaped by these rules. The gate classes themselves (hard-outward / soft-inward / escalation-only) are defined in `orc:using-orc`; the 1–3 line context block before the call is the **⛔ Gate** callout from `orc:callouts`. Options never go inside the callout — the question widget renders them. ## 1. Header chip = gate class The `header` chip (≤12 chars) tells the user what kind of decision this is. Hard-outward and escalation gates use a **closed vocabulary**, so the class is readable at a glance — and the orc mod reads it to draw a gate badge above the dialog: | Class | Chips | Rule | |---|---|---| | Hard-outward | `Publish` (evidence / artifact upload) · `Post` (PR review, replies, comments) · `Tracker` (issue / Jira writes) | Always asks — no flag, policy, or settled decision skips it. Name the exact target (repo, PR #, ticket key) in the question. | | Escalation-only | `Escalation` | Never asked proactively; stops the run at every policy level. | | Soft-inward | Free, short noun: `Plan`, `Driver`, `PR size`, `Compose`, `Next step`, … | Never reuse an outward or escalation chip. | ## 2. Options …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add higoralves/orc/gates@sha256:9f6eb012a27661e4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.5813265, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 6, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20261024.5813265 latest | 2026-10-24 | 5813265 | 5,470 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.096391f | 2026-10-24 | 096391f | 5,479 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.7a1f356 | 2026-10-20 | 7a1f356 | 4,449 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.5716ee8 | 2026-10-06 | 5716ee8 | 4,437 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.49a86b6 | 2026-10-06 | 49a86b6 | 4,407 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 (5470 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
higoralves/orc · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s73hlvaadxhqoyre GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=higoralves/orc/gates GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9f6eb012a27661e492e4797cd33cd0c7f95e560a777e4e1d4023606886ec9206
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.