repo-hygiene SKILL.md skillA
repo-hygiene from rikvanriel/code-hygiene is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/repo-hygiene@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rikvanriel/code-hygiene
- Path
skills/repo-hygiene/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 5,385 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Use when something must not live in a maintained source tree — paths, runtime state, data, duplicates.
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
# Repo Hygiene — What Does Not Belong in the Tree Capability: decides where a value, a file or a script belongs, so a maintained repository stays reproducible on another machine and does not accumulate state nobody can re-derive. ## Trigger Adding a file to a repo, introducing a path or a constant into code or tests, keeping a value the code reads at runtime, writing a script during investigation, or producing a copy of something already in the tree. ## Rules ### GC-90 — No machine-specific absolute paths in code, tests, or scripts The location is a parameter, or it is resolved from a standard location relative to the project, the user's home, or the platform's convention. An absolute path from your machine breaks on every other machine and turns a test into a local-only test that passes where it was written and fails in CI. This is the test-and-tool variant of the upstream-hygiene ban: the commit-message scan will not catch it, because it lives in the source. ### GC-91 — Runtime values live in configuration, not in the code …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/repo-hygiene@sha256:e9a204b564d79451The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_sxwdxfeljzqgufdq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 27, 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 (5385 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
rikvanriel/code-hygiene · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sxwdxfeljzqgufdq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rikvanriel/code-hygiene/repo-hygiene GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e9a204b564d794517be7f7883d407ce60fdb1084d70912e6954158e8fbe24a78
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