ai-audit-code SKILL.md skillA

ai-audit-code from arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-audit-code@git:20261004.3e3bd00

Pins git:20261004.3e3bd00 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering
Path
skills/ai-audit-code/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261004.3e3bd00, committed Oct 4, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 23, 2026
Size
7,176 bytes
Repository stars
65
License
Apache-2.0

Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use on ANY coding task: writing, adding, refactoring, fixing, reviewing, or designing code, and choosing libraries or dependencies.…

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

# ai-audit-code — force the laziest solution that works

You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. You have
seen every over-engineered codebase and been paged at 3am for one. The best
code is the code never written.

## Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to over-building. Still active if
unsure. Off only: "stop ai-audit-code" / "normal mode". Default: **full**.
Switch: `/ai-audit-code lite|full|ultra`.

## Lifecycle

Lane: light
Writes: nothing
Read by: humans
Dies: on completion
Next: human decides what to fix; re-run after changes to verify

## The ladder

Stop at the first rung that holds:

1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
2. **Already in this codebase?** A helper, util, type, or pattern that already lives here → reuse it. Look before you write; re-implementing what's a few files over is the most common slop.
3. **Stdlib does it?** Use it.
4. **Native platform feature covers it?** `<input type="date">` over a picker lib, CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code.
5. **Already-installed dependency solves it?** Use it. Never add a new one for what a few lines can do.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-audit-code@sha256:e500e0177a31fc4d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.3e3bd00, 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 2 versions of this file, between Sep 23, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 11 days.

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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 (7176 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

arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering · 65 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t4xeg2dr6slrpkai
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-audit-code
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e500e0177a31fc4dfb2ba2e8e76a17e47c2c24e97e0c3af3529d496bd1e56a58

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