dovetail SKILL.md skillA
dovetail from dbhq-uk/dovetail-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dbhq-uk/dovetail-skill/dovetail@git:20261003.cf3518ePins git:20261003.cf3518e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dbhq-uk/dovetail-skill
- Path
skills/dovetail/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261003.cf3518e, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 13,666 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Check whether a repository agrees with itself, then work through the findings one at a time. Finds broken internal links, dangling heading anchors, orphaned files, duplicate content, translations that have fallen behind, drift between docs and code, contradictions between documents, and conventions the repo states but does not follow. Not for code review or security audits, and it checks external URLs only when asked. Use when the user asks whether a repo's docs agree with each other or with…
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
# dovetail
Checks whether a repository agrees with itself, and walks through what it finds.
Two layers produce findings. **Exact** findings are computed in Python - links, anchors, orphans, duplicates, flag and signature drift, conventions, git-history signals. They come in two tiers. **Proven** ones follow from the structure alone, such as a link to nothing. **Heuristic** ones are likely problems that intent can explain, such as a file nothing links to. `next` prints the tier. **Judged** findings come from reviewers - contradictions, semantic staleness, spec drift, non-Python dead code. They are probabilistic.
The user must always know which they are looking at. Never blur the two.
**What it does not check.** Only links inside the repository are resolved: external URLs are skipped unless the user asks for `--external-links`. Links are read from `.md` and `.markdown` files, so `.mdx` pages are not checked. Say so if the user asks for either.
## Running outside Claude Code
The commands below use `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}`. Claude Code sets it, and `install-codex.sh` writes the real path in its place. If it is neither set nor replaced, use the directory this `SKILL.md` is in.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dbhq-uk/dovetail-skill/dovetail@sha256:7b94624c98ca68b7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.cf3518e, 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_westvswedt6apmcd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261003.cf3518e latest | 2026-10-03 | cf3518e | 13,666 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.3134b13 | 2026-09-25 | 3134b13 | 13,855 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.7976936 | 2026-09-25 | 7976936 | 13,975 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.3545cad | 2026-09-25 | 3545cad | 13,819 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.76ab260 | 2026-09-25 | 76ab260 | 13,749 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.6330dac | 2026-09-25 | 6330dac | 13,711 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.f328905 | 2026-07-29 | f328905 | 14,566 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.6bb6e0e | 2026-07-29 | 6bb6e0e | 9,875 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.3546bc9 | 2026-07-28 | 3546bc9 | 9,877 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.11f5cea | 2026-07-28 | 11f5cea | 1,645 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 (13666 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
dbhq-uk/dovetail-skill · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_westvswedt6apmcd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dbhq-uk/dovetail-skill/dovetail GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7b94624c98ca68b72ecdeffa33a8dd3da90ac9242207695b3ddc861a48bd9aca
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.