goga-design-by-changes SKILL.md skillA

goga-design-by-changes from qarium/goga is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add qarium/goga/goga-design-by-changes@git:20260904.bb4f79d

Pins git:20260904.bb4f79d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
qarium/goga
Path
goga/assets/skills/goga-design-by-changes/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20260904.bb4f79d, committed Sep 4, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 29, 2026
Size
15,825 bytes
Repository stars
44
License
BSD-3-Clause

Generate a design document from CODEMANIFEST change analysis.

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

# Design by Changes

## Purpose

The agent produces a **design document** — a complete architectural specification derived from `CODEMANIFEST` changes.

The design document specifies **what** to implement and **how** to implement it.

The agent does **not** write implementation code. The agent does **not** produce an execution plan.
The agent produces an **architectural specification** where every detail is fully elaborated.

---

### Phase 1: DSL Loading

#### Step 1: Load the DSL specification

The agent invokes `goga-cell` via the **Skill tool**.

Use `goga-cell` for:
- Understanding cell structure (CODEMANIFEST, `.usages/`)
- Interpreting directives (Imports, Usages, Annotations, types, mutations, embeddings)
- Validating syntactic correctness

#### Step 2: Load the DSL application principles

The agent invokes `goga-cookbook` via the **Skill tool**.

Use `goga-cookbook` for:
- Selecting between Entity and Routine
- Determining cell granularity
- Choosing the Usages connection form (file / inline / URL)
- Applying principles for writing usage files in `.usages/`

---

### Phase 2: Change Collection

#### Step 1: Git diff CODEMANIFEST
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add qarium/goga/goga-design-by-changes@sha256:65b6c6a689dd24af

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260904.bb4f79d, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jun 29, 2026 and Sep 4, 2026, about one every 22 days.

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git:20260904.bb4f79d latest2026-09-04 bb4f79d 15,825 BA view · diff
git:20260828.8e1fac12026-08-28 8e1fac1 15,870 BA view · diff
git:20260827.2d049ad2026-08-27 2d049ad 15,869 BA view · diff
git:20260629.9657aba2026-06-29 9657aba 15,836 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 (15825 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

qarium/goga · 44 stars · license BSD-3-Clause · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch 2.1.x

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sndmmcsrbfogixl7
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qarium/goga/goga-design-by-changes
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/65b6c6a689dd24afc7929756398af71e1c02ee94f278697b8ed33837fefb008e

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