maw-selfreview SKILL.md skillA

maw-selfreview from pockerhead/maw is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pockerhead/maw/maw-selfreview@git:20260730.a181b94

Pins git:20260730.a181b94 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pockerhead/maw
Path
skills/maw-selfreview/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260730.a181b94, committed Jul 30, 2026
Size
4,849 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

One-stage adversarial review of your own uncommitted diff, run by a different vendor than the one that wrote it. Use before committing work you produced in an ordinary session — no task folder, no pipeline, no branch handling. Costs one spawn and about a minute, against nine stages for the full pipeline. Reviews the diff only; it never edits code. Normally fires automatically from the pre-commit gate rather than being called by hand — the moment you would think to ask for it is the moment you…

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

# Self-review — the judge must not be the author

In an ordinary session you are both the author and the only reviewer of what you wrote. That is not a review, it is a re-reading, and it fails in a specific direction: you skip exactly the places you feel sure about, and you feel sure precisely where you cannot see the defect.

This skill spends one spawn to break that. A reviewer on a **different vendor** receives the diff and the task it was meant to accomplish, reads the repository itself, and reports. It cannot edit anything.

Different vendor is not decoration. Measured on this project: a codex reviewer caught that a DSN test dropped production tables; a claude fixer working on that same finding caught a second leak path codex had missed; elsewhere codex found five tools leaking a key while claude caught that codex's own Helm recommendation would break minikube and its `2001::/16` rule would kill half of IPv6 egress including Google. Same-vendor review shares blind spots with the author by construction.

## When it runs
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pockerhead/maw/maw-selfreview@sha256:49c6cbf87dcf2908

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260730.a181b94, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 30, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260730.a181b94 latest2026-07-30 a181b94 4,849 BA view

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 (4849 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

pockerhead/maw · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wfiowcklvk4ih5ju
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pockerhead/maw/maw-selfreview
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/49c6cbf87dcf2908c0ff1e004bc27c8ed51f8c5997dc114c3d229c1f10125ba3

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.

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