audit-before-you-build SKILL.md skillA
audit-before-you-build from iamakbarsha1/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/audit-before-you-build@git:20261024.d153ccePins git:20261024.d153cce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iamakbarsha1/whetstone
- Path
skills/audit-before-you-build/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261024.d153cce, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 15, 2026
- Size
- 5,224 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
Use as the FIRST step of any implementation task handed to you from a checklist, ticket, milestone, or spec — the first step is an existence check, not a design. Trackers record conversations, not deliverables, so grep for the item's key nouns and cross-check spec status before writing code, then pivot "build X" to "verify X and close the gaps" when it already exists. Triggers on "implement this ticket", "build feature X", "next milestone item", "from the checklist", "start this task", "add X".
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
# Audit Before You Build **Type:** Open-source — client-agnostic methodology, no project-specific detail. **Created by akbarsha — https://github.com/iamakbarsha1** Distilled from cases where a checklist item was already ~90% shipped as a side effect, and where "all issues closed" hid whole unbuilt layers — building from the tracker text would have duplicated working code or missed real gaps. **Licence:** Released under CC BY 4.0 — share and adapt for any purpose with credit. Full text: `LICENSE` at the repository root. **Feedback & Support:** If a rule here proves wrong or needs sharpening, open an issue on the repository or contact the author at the profile link above. If the problem is the agent not following a rule below rather than the rule itself, that's an execution failure — acknowledge and correct it. ## The core rule A ticket, checklist, or spec line records a conversation about intent — it is not a reliable record of what has or hasn't been built. Code drifts from the tracker in both directions: features ship as side effects of other work without their item being ticked, and closed items leave real layers unbuilt. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iamakbarsha1/whetstone/audit-before-you-build@sha256:8450980a98915fbfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.d153cce, 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_wzke7u55hsuyri4g)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 15, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261024.d153cce latest | 2026-10-24 | d153cce | 5,224 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.9af84f1 | 2026-10-19 | 9af84f1 | 4,782 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.b3a119b | 2026-10-19 | b3a119b | 4,766 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.0363531 | 2026-08-15 | 0363531 | 3,836 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.61aa8b5 | 2026-08-15 | 61aa8b5 | 3,808 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 (5224 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
iamakbarsha1/whetstone · 4 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wzke7u55hsuyri4g GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iamakbarsha1/whetstone/audit-before-you-build GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8450980a98915fbf29f574c72a9415a1b2792242ed327f9444d54fd7df60dd0b
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