plan-review SKILL.md skillA

plan-review from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/plan-review@v1.1.0

Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mathews-tom/armory
Path
skills/plan-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v1.1.0, committed Nov 1, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 13, 2026
Size
8,621 bytes
Repository stars
341
License
MIT

Pre-implementation plan audit stress-testing scope, assumptions, risks, and failure modes before code is written. Triggers on: "review this plan", "is this plan solid", "what am I missing", "challenge my assumptions", "stress-test this", "/plan-review".

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

# Plan Review Skill

## Purpose

Execute a structured pre-implementation audit of a technical plan, proposal,
or design document. The goal is to surface risks, bad assumptions, missing
pieces, and scope problems _before_ any code is written — when course
corrections are cheapest.

This skill is read-only. It never modifies code. It produces a
severity-tagged review document with a final ship/rethink/reject verdict.

## Step 0 — Mode Selection

Use the requested lens: Product, Engineering, or Combined. When none is specified, use Combined without a configuration question. Resolve facts from the plan and repository; ask only for a material decision the evidence cannot settle.

Also assess scope size from the plan:

- **Small change** (single file, ~100 lines or fewer): deliver a compressed
  4-section review — Scope, Risks, Missing, Verdict. Skip the full
  multi-section template.
- **Standard change**: execute the full review sequence below.

## Full Review Sequence

### 1. Plan Comprehension
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/plan-review@sha256:0fea33d1f26b399b

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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 6 versions of this file, between Mar 13, 2026 and Nov 1, 2026, about one every 47 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.1.0 latest2026-11-01 f49c9ea 8,621 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-04-11 0aa221a 7,842 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-04-07 b03849d 8,088 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-03-27 d46cf2e 8,088 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-03-26 6fe71e6 7,825 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-03-13 199aadb 7,720 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 (8621 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

mathews-tom/armory · 341 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zwfkz24fogxchzkd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/plan-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0fea33d1f26b399b85697d2d4785dc20a6f4396559a1bd60d0cb964d9b25d01a

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