vibe-production-mindset SKILL.md skillA

vibe-production-mindset from ash1794/vibe-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-production-mindset@git:20260928.7d7cde1

Pins git:20260928.7d7cde1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ash1794/vibe-engineering
Path
plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-production-mindset/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260928.7d7cde1, committed Sep 28, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 25, 2026
Size
4,256 bytes
Repository stars
165
License
MIT

Checks production-bound code for observability, error handling at system boundaries, input validation, graceful degradation, and resource management, scaled to the project's real stakes. Use before declaring a production feature done.

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

# vibe-production-mindset

The gap between "works on my machine" and "works in production" is where incidents live. The goal is to avoid under-engineering the critical paths, not to add every hardening pattern to every feature. Pair it with `vibe-scope-guard`.

## When to Use This Skill

- Implementing API endpoints, data processing, or user-facing features that will run in production
- Before declaring a production feature "done"
- When the user cares about production quality

## When NOT to Use This Skill

- Prototypes or spikes explicitly marked as throwaway
- Internal scripts that run once
- Test code (different quality criteria)
- When the user says "just get it working"

## Calibrate First

Before running the checklist, establish the stakes and the conventions:
- **What already exists?** Use the project's existing logger, metrics, retry, and validation libraries. Don't introduce a second one.
- **What's the real scale and blast radius?** An internal admin tool and a public payments API need different answers.
- Only flag an item if it applies at *this* project's scale. A missing circuit breaker is not a gap in a service with one dependency and ten users.

## The Checklist
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-production-mindset@sha256:83d08c6d99ce2537

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260928.7d7cde1, 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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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 (4256 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

ash1794/vibe-engineering · 165 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wmnqfhcuwt3eiqb6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ash1794/vibe-engineering/vibe-production-mindset
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/83d08c6d99ce25377078cac18e6ac00bdf1bb20a47ddf1601b058396e7eae4c9

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