michi-second-look SKILL.md skillA

michi-second-look from csepulv/michi is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add csepulv/michi/michi-second-look@git:20261106.9667115

Pins git:20261106.9667115 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
csepulv/michi
Path
toolkit/skills/michi-second-look/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261106.9667115, committed Nov 6, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 23, 2026
Size
16,575 bytes
Repository stars
2
License
MIT

Independent review of a milestone, epic or project by an agent that was not in the session — a second pair of eyes. Checks requested-vs-observed against the accepted criteria, spot-checks the builder's claims, judges design against Michi's bar. An `audit` mode asks the forward question instead — dependencies, architecture, test-suite health, patterns and libraries worth adopting — as rated recommendations. Read-only; corrections are proposed, not made. Run from a separate session.

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

# Michi Second Look

A review of finished or in-flight work by an agent that **did not do the work**. The builder's own
checks — self-review, the session's code-review subagent, the debrief — are all graded from inside the
session that produced the work. This skill is the seat outside it.

**Principles served:** Verification governs autonomy (a check the builder cannot talk its way past).
Clarify before Asserting (claims are traced to sources, not repeated). Surface assumptions (the
builder's, found from outside). See `references/principles.md`.

**Before proceeding:** If `docs/reference/extensions.md` exists, read it. Instructions there take
priority over this skill's defaults.

**Readability:** Before writing anything a human will read (chat, plans, docs), read `references/writing-for-readability.md`.

**Principles:** Before starting, read `references/principles.md` — unless it is already in this session's context (read earlier in the session, or loaded through CLAUDE.md).

## The seat

You are in a **separate session** from the one that built the target. Nobody from that session
briefs you, summarizes for you, or tells you what is out of scope. You read the repo yourself.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add csepulv/michi/michi-second-look@sha256:5cb5b37b9c59c251

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.9667115, 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 Sep 23, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 15 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261106.9667115 latest2026-11-06 9667115 16,575 BA view · diff
git:20261029.22b5d332026-10-29 22b5d33 16,326 BA view · diff
git:20260929.380b5f32026-09-29 380b5f3 16,199 BA view · diff
git:20260923.6736f042026-09-23 6736f04 11,224 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 (16575 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

csepulv/michi · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xq52k5ki7vjnljrt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=csepulv/michi/michi-second-look
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5cb5b37b9c59c25116fe6d0ba3d6f67400d1201074099f674df4249b8c22bc35

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.

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