scope-guard SKILL.md skillA
scope-guard from athola/claude-night-market is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/scope-guard@git:20261005.41f2770Pins git:20261005.41f2770 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- athola/claude-night-market
- Path
plugins/imbue/skills/scope-guard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261005.41f2770, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 8, 2026
- Size
- 9,213 bytes
- Repository stars
- 348
- License
- MIT
Scores feature worthiness and enforces branch-size limits against overengineering. Use when evaluating whether a feature belongs in the current scope or branch.
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
> The cheapest feature is the one you never build. > Scope-guard weighs each proposed feature against its value, > its cost, and the branch budget, so only what is earned ships. # Scope Guard Prevents overengineering by both Claude and human during the brainstorm, plan, and execute workflow. Forces explicit evaluation of every proposed feature against business value, opportunity cost, and branch constraints. ## Philosophy **Core Belief:** Not all features deserve implementation. Most ideas should be deferred to backlog until proven necessary. **Three Pillars:** 1. **Worthiness Scoring** - Quantify value vs cost before building 2. **Opportunity Cost** - Compare against existing backlog 3. **Branch Discipline** - Respect size thresholds ## When To Use - During brainstorming sessions before documenting designs - During planning sessions before finalizing implementation plans - When evaluating "should we add this?" decisions - Automatically via hooks when branches approach thresholds - When proposing new features, abstractions, or patterns ## When NOT To Use - Bug fixes with clear, bounded scope - Documentation-only changes - Trivial single-file edits (< 50 lines) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/scope-guard@sha256:a14244123f8978b1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.41f2770, 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_znq6dad5s42ghwle)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between May 8, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261005.41f2770 latest | 2026-10-05 | 41f2770 | 9,213 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261005.72b0a8f | 2026-10-05 | 72b0a8f | 9,136 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.4a35d69 | 2026-09-02 | 4a35d69 | 9,137 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.c7c8f6f | 2026-06-22 | c7c8f6f | 10,645 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260606.1ea234f | 2026-06-06 | 1ea234f | 9,871 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260521.6f5c7d9 | 2026-05-21 | 6f5c7d9 | 9,876 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260508.c09f147 | 2026-05-08 | c09f147 | 9,791 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 (9213 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
athola/claude-night-market · 348 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_znq6dad5s42ghwle GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=athola/claude-night-market/scope-guard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a14244123f8978b13de0130ff523cabfa2f6d38792452d87db5b67bd01d06db6
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.