iterative-converging-audit SKILL.md skillA
iterative-converging-audit from jkheadley/instar is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jkheadley/instar/iterative-converging-audit@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jkheadley/instar
- Path
skills/iterative-converging-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Aug 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 8, 2026
- Size
- 9,625 bytes
- Repository stars
- 85
- License
- MIT
Run any "find all instances of X" sweep — a security audit, a safety audit, a code review, a research question, a compliance check — as an iterative loop that does NOT stop at one pass. Audit → fix → RE-audit → … until a clean pass returns zero NEW discoveries. Use whenever thoroughness matters and a single pass would miss things. Trigger words: audit, sweep, find all, review everything, comprehensive, thorough, exhaustive, security review, safety audit, no stone unturned, did we get…
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
<!-- INSTAR:AUDIT-META-ARTIFACT-V2 --> # iterative-converging-audit — Audit to Convergence, Not to Exhaustion-of-Patience A single audit pass is never thorough. The first sweep has blind spots; the fixes themselves reveal new instances or introduce new ones; and "I looked once and stopped finding things" usually means "I got tired," not "there is nothing left." The only honest definition of a complete audit is a **converged** one: a re-run that finds **zero new discoveries**. This skill turns that into a structurally enforced loop. It applies to ANY "find all instances of X" task — security audits, safety audits, code reviews, research sweeps, compliance checks, dependency audits, dead-code hunts, "are there other places we do this wrong" investigations. This skill enforces the **Iterative Audit to Convergence** constitution standard (`docs/STANDARDS-REGISTRY.md`). You do not declare an audit complete on round 1. You track rounds. You re-audit after every fix batch. --- ## When to Activate This Skill - Any request to "find all", "audit", "sweep", "review everything", "make sure we got everything". …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jkheadley/instar/iterative-converging-audit@sha256:43de6e834a3b535bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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_vshkvtt62urw4jbx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 8, 2026 and Aug 1, 2026, about one every 27 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0 latest | 2026-08-01 | 1c2c175 | 9,625 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-07-11 | db2bfa0 | 8,663 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-06-08 | 1bd973a | 7,098 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 (9625 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
jkheadley/instar · 85 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vshkvtt62urw4jbx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jkheadley/instar/iterative-converging-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/43de6e834a3b535bbfd088fc8b209430fb5ffdc32e43d8981a8743945bc6154b
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