audit-broken-characters SKILL.md skillA
audit-broken-characters from fractera/web4-node-starter-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fractera/web4-node-starter-kit/audit-broken-characters@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fractera/web4-node-starter-kit
- Path
.claude/skills/audit-broken-characters/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,567 bytes
- Repository stars
- 60
- License
- MIT
Scan the whole project for BROKEN / REPLACEMENT characters in localized text — a control byte (e.g. 0x13) or U+FFFD or mojibake left where an accented letter belonged, which renders as a box (e.g. "Documentación" showing "Documentaci□n"). Use when the owner reports a square / wrong glyph in the UI or content, says "broken character", "weird symbol", "mojibake", "validate encoding", or after authoring multilingual content and before closing a content step. It SHIPS SILENTLY…
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-broken-characters > Informational, not binding. **Know a better way for the case in front of you — do it your way and > say so.** You are trusted with the creative work on this project. The project's universal **encoding-integrity** check. A lossy step — voice dictation, copy-paste, a bad transform — can drop an accented letter and leave a **control byte** (0x13…), **U+FFFD** (the replacement char), or **mojibake** in its place. The file still parses, so it ships **silently**, and the live page shows a **box instead of the letter** (the real "Documentación" became "Documentaci□n"). Unlike a silently dropped letter, these ARE detectable. This capability is **two-sided**: - **Prevention (already wired):** the content emitters — `create-multilingual-content-entry` and `expand-site-language`'s fan-out + translate runner — **refuse** a broken char on write, in any language. - **Detection (this skill):** the project-root scanner sweeps the **whole corpus** (every language, every content/UI/data file) and reports what already sits in the tree. ## Where it lives & how to run it **Script:** `scripts/scan-broken-characters.mjs` (project root). **One command:** ```bash …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add fractera/web4-node-starter-kit/audit-broken-characters@sha256:f9af2bee63534c18The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 Sep 18, 2026.
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 (3567 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
fractera/web4-node-starter-kit · 60 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xnujqen62vg2lssf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fractera/web4-node-starter-kit/audit-broken-characters GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f9af2bee63534c180abf35b4e3bae50cbc607d40af4b9e2600ff6233dd38260c
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