workflow-coding-discipline SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
workflow-coding-discipline from kensaurus/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kensaurus/skills/workflow-coding-discipline@git:20260923.68c095ePins git:20260923.68c095e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kensaurus/skills
- Path
skills/workflow-coding-discipline/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260923.68c095e, committed Sep 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 4, 2026
- Size
- 5,820 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Guardrails for writing, editing, refactoring, or debugging code: surface assumptions, simplicity first, surgical changes. Use when vibe-coding keeps producing wrong results, or for "think before coding" or "surgical changes".
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
# Karpathy Behavioral Guidelines **Degree of freedom: HIGH.** How strictly to apply each guardrail is judgment. Trivial one-liners may skip the full loop; a wrong architectural guess may not. ## How to reason 1. **Observe** — what is already in the repo vs what you are about to invent 2. **Interpret** — is this a one-liner or a tradeoff that needs a question? 3. **Classify** — proceed / ask / simplify 4. **Severity** — a silent assumption that changes public behavior is a fail ## Worked example > **Observe:** user said "just add caching"; repo already has TanStack Query on the same endpoint. > **Interpret:** a second cache would duplicate, not simplify. > **Classify:** ask, then reuse Query — do not add Redis. > **Check:** surgical edit; no new abstraction. ## Self-critique before reporting - **Thought first** — confusion was surfaced, not coded through - **Simpler option** — no extra layer without a repeating pattern - **Surgical** — unrelated files untouched - **Right owner** — scoped refactor → `workflow-refactor`; repo-wide pattern → `audit-code-quality` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kensaurus/skills/workflow-coding-discipline@sha256:116af0dd03873f69The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260923.68c095e, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jun 4, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026, about one every 37 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260923.68c095e latest | 2026-09-23 | 68c095e | 5,820 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.cf348bd | 2026-09-23 | cf348bd | 5,857 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.2a41031 | 2026-08-21 | 2a41031 | 5,519 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260604.45202dd | 2026-06-04 | 45202dd | 4,353 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 (5820 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
kensaurus/skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xdeeuhrsvik2oqhv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kensaurus/skills/workflow-coding-discipline GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/116af0dd03873f69ce660f0e488ca27acda73f4b9fb46942c5fc0d7502892f5a
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