arch-deviate SKILL.md skillA
arch-deviate from baristaze/swe_guidelines is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-deviate@git:20261014.fec008fPins git:20261014.fec008f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- baristaze/swe_guidelines
- Path
skills/arch-deviate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 11
- Latest version
- git:20261014.fec008f, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 6,278 bytes
- Repository stars
- 94
- License
- MIT
Record a deliberate deviation from the guideline as an ADR under docs/adr/: the rule quoted, the decision, the consequences. Use when a finding is accepted as intentional.
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
# arch-deviate A project that follows the guideline may still need to diverge from a rule. The divergence is recorded, not argued about in review threads: one ADR quotes the rule, states the decision, and names what the project accepts in exchange. A breach whose ADR is cited next to the code is a documented exception. A review reports it on one line under Deviations. It is not a finding, and it never lowers a severity. ## Input The arguments name the rule being deviated from, as a lens id (`STO-02`), a section by title (`The Storage Layer, Storage Principles`), or a sentence describing it, optionally followed by a one-line reason. A technology substitution (an equivalent in place of a technology the guideline names) is not a deviation and is recorded in the project's technology-choices ADR instead (in a copy, its own, never the scaffold's), as the guideline's "Technology Choices and How to Override Them" section states; when the arguments describe one, say so and stop. Ask in one message for what is missing: the reason, the scope of the deviation (which namespace, service, or table), and whether it is permanent or has a condition for ending. ## Procedure …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-deviate@sha256:2625942b1a70e982The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.fec008f, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_si7du5glp7t2npg6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261014.fec008f latest | 2026-10-14 | fec008f | 6,278 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.7748a1f | 2026-10-14 | 7748a1f | 6,034 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.0351c86 | 2026-10-04 | 0351c86 | 5,991 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.d863924 | 2026-09-30 | d863924 | 5,620 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.3422014 | 2026-09-29 | 3422014 | 4,694 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.81ce1ea | 2026-09-22 | 81ce1ea | 4,696 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.5fc1bb8 | 2026-09-22 | 5fc1bb8 | 4,532 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.e4ae97c | 2026-09-22 | e4ae97c | 4,531 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.f72eecd | 2026-09-21 | f72eecd | 4,683 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.93b5e1e | 2026-09-21 | 93b5e1e | 4,457 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.3f0daa8 | 2026-09-20 | 3f0daa8 | 3,135 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 (6278 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
baristaze/swe_guidelines · 94 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_si7du5glp7t2npg6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=baristaze/swe_guidelines/arch-deviate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2625942b1a70e98243eda5e9c3381d4f3014e7798906ba940b58372922061dd6
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.