new-project-gate SKILL.md skillA
new-project-gate from aka-kika/akakika-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aka-kika/akakika-skills/new-project-gate@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aka-kika/akakika-skills
- Path
skills/project-intelligence/new-project-gate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 6,594 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Run before building anything new — a pre-build gate that decides whether an idea deserves its own tool, judged from both the agent lens (legible, drivable, automatable) and the human lens (will I touch it, do I want to maintain it). Trigger on "should I build X", "starting a new project / app / tool / repo", "is this worth making", "want to spin up", or any new-build intent — even if the word "checklist" never appears. Outputs a backed GATE.md with checkmarks and a one-line verdict note in the…
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
# New Project Gate A gate, not a form. Run it before the editor opens. The job is to **kill bad ideas cheaply** and let good ones through with their smallest proving cut already named. The failure mode this guards against is sprawl — fast at building the wrong thing is just faster sprawl. After a project is built and shipped, run it through [old-project-audit](../old-project-audit/SKILL.md) on the next pass to decide if it earned its keep. ## Verdict at a glance | Checkpoint 0 or 1 → `KILL` | Any other `[ ]` → `CUT` | All green or `[~]` → `GO` | | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | | Tool shouldn't exist at all | Build smaller, fix the gap first | Build the dumbest proving cut | `[x]` = passed · `[ ]` = failed · `[~]` = unsure / needs the human ## How to run it Walk the six checkpoints in order. For each one: 1. **Concise why** — one line on what this checkpoint protects against. 2. **1-2 line answer** — verdict for this idea, holding both lenses. If the lenses disagree, **say so**; that disagreement is the signal. 3. **Mark the check** — `[x]` `[ ]` or `[~]`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aka-kika/akakika-skills/new-project-gate@sha256:4733b66505fc9e20The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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_sxpuqjfu464zhskv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 17, 2026.
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 (6594 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
aka-kika/akakika-skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sxpuqjfu464zhskv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aka-kika/akakika-skills/new-project-gate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4733b66505fc9e20d6faf0eb4b5bb23b448b650e6b67c7e09f269ae557e68d12
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.