brooks-lint SKILL.md skillA
brooks-lint from skillmds/skillmd is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmds/skillmd/brooks-lint@git:20260919.fecc0d5Pins git:20260919.fecc0d5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmds/skillmd
- Path
plugins/code-security-review-pipeline/skills/brooks-lint/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260919.fecc0d5, committed Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 6,364 bytes
- Repository stars
- 250
- License
- MIT
AI code reviewer grounded in classic software engineering books for catching design smells, coupling issues, and architectural risks.
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
# Brooks Lint ## Overview Brooks Lint is a Claude Code skill that reviews your code through the lens of 12 classic software engineering books. Instead of checking style rules, it asks: "What would the authors of *The Pragmatic Programmer*, *Clean Code*, and *Designing Data-Intensive Applications* say about this code?" It synthesizes the principles from landmark engineering books into actionable, structured feedback — catching design smells, tight coupling, missing abstractions, and architectural risks that linters and AI tools typically miss. Named after Fred Brooks, author of *The Mythical Man-Month* — because the hardest bugs are conceptual, not syntactic. ## The 12 Books | Book | Key Principles Applied | |------|----------------------| | *The Pragmatic Programmer* | DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets | | *Clean Code* | Naming, function size, comment clarity | | *The Mythical Man-Month* | Conceptual integrity, second-system effect | | *Designing Data-Intensive Applications* | Data consistency, fault tolerance, scalability | | *A Philosophy of Software Design* | Deep modules, information hiding, complexity | | *Refactoring* | Code smells, extract method, encapsulation | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmds/skillmd/brooks-lint@sha256:c375cfc1d4182a68The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.fecc0d5, 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_vzd5tduysmsrcrq4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 19, 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 (6364 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
skillmds/skillmd · 250 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vzd5tduysmsrcrq4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmds/skillmd/brooks-lint GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c375cfc1d4182a68b6f5044040f7b4186dc2455efab794510770cd41343d1686
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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.