chisle-audit SKILL.md skillA

chisle-audit from jaypokale/chisle is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/chisle-audit@git:20260911.dea14e2

Pins git:20260911.dea14e2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jaypokale/chisle
Path
skills/chisle-audit/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260911.dea14e2, committed Sep 11, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 28, 2026
Size
2,758 bytes
Repository stars
738
License
MIT

One-shot efficiency audit of a file, diff, or whole repo across BOTH axes at once: over-engineered code (reinvented stdlib, needless abstractions, speculative config) AND bloated prose (verbose comments, padded docstrings, redundant doc sections). Neither a pure code-minimizer nor a pure prose compressor does both in one pass. That's the point. Ranked report, biggest saving first; changes nothing. Use when the user says "chisle audit", "/chisle-audit", "audit this for bloat", "what can I cut…

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

# Chisle Audit

Scan the target (a diff, a file, or the repo tree) and report what to cut, on
both axes. One-shot. Read-only: never edit, never write a flag, never apply fixes.

## Scope

- No argument → audit the current `git diff` (staged + unstaged). Empty diff → audit `HEAD~1..HEAD`.
- A path → audit that file or directory.
- "repo" / "whole repo" → walk the tree (skip vendored/generated/`node_modules`/`dist`/lockfiles).

## What to flag

**Code (the YAGNI axis):**
- Reinvented stdlib (hand-rolled debounce, deep-clone, groupBy, retry loop, date math)
- Abstraction with one implementation (interface/factory/wrapper for a single case)
- New dependency for what a few lines or an installed dep already covers
- Config/option/flag that never varies
- Speculative "for later" scaffolding with no current caller
- Verbose code where a native platform feature (CSS, DB constraint, `<input type>`) does it

**Prose (the compression axis), the half a code-only auditor misses:**
- Comments that restate the code (`i += 1  // increment i`)
- Docstrings/READMEs padded with filler, hedging, ceremony, or duplicated content
- Multi-paragraph explanations where one tight sentence carries the meaning
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jaypokale/chisle/chisle-audit@sha256:8d1663e17dd6826b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.dea14e2, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_xtqy57j2synesibs.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_xtqy57j2synesibs)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 46 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260911.dea14e2 latest2026-09-11 dea14e2 2,758 BA view · diff
git:20260728.f0241192026-07-28 f024119 2,770 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 (2758 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

jaypokale/chisle · 738 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xtqy57j2synesibs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaypokale/chisle/chisle-audit
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8d1663e17dd6826b641b59f0af1ed68e9f4bdd2edb06168d90a8e82fbc2cf6e5

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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