spec-review SKILL.md skillA
spec-review from vibeic/vibe-ic is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vibeic/vibe-ic/spec-review@git:20261025.18d4c5dPins git:20261025.18d4c5d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vibeic/vibe-ic
- Path
vibe-ic-marketplace/plugins/vibe-ic/skills/spec-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261025.18d4c5d, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 13, 2026
- Size
- 6,292 bytes
- Repository stars
- 32
- License
- Apache-2.0
Review a natural-language hardware specification for ambiguity, internal inconsistency, untestable statements, and missing corner cases BEFORE it enters spec-to-rtl. Use when the user says "review this spec", "check my spec", "is this spec complete", "spec sanity check", or provides a datasheet draft / PRD for a hardware block.
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
# Spec Review
A bad spec is the cheapest bug to fix and the most expensive to ship. This skill screens a natural-language spec for defects before `/spec-to-rtl` turns the defects into RTL.
## When to use
- Draft PRD / architecture doc for a new block
- Legacy spec being resurrected for a new tape-out
- Spec delta for an ECO
- Before running any generative skill that consumes the spec
## Review dimensions
1. **Unambiguous**
- Every signal has direction, width, polarity, clock domain, reset domain
- Every timing statement has a reference edge
2. **Internally consistent**
- No contradicting statements ("always X" vs "X when Y")
- Priority order of control signals is explicit
- Numerical examples match the general rule
3. **Testable**
- Every behavior can be observed from I/O or debug
- Every mode has an entry and exit condition
4. **Complete corner cases**
- Reset during operation
- Back-to-back transactions
- Full / empty / overflow / underflow
- Illegal inputs — defined vs undefined behavior
5. **Interface discipline**
- Protocol compliance (AXI, APB, AHB, I2C, SPI)
- Handshake sequencing
6. **Non-functional**
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vibeic/vibe-ic/spec-review@sha256:b072878db4ed46abThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.18d4c5d, 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_zxdxvnif5bkazfbc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 13, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 134 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261025.18d4c5d latest | 2026-10-25 | 18d4c5d | 6,292 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260613.86cacb4 | 2026-06-13 | 86cacb4 | 4,548 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 (6292 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
vibeic/vibe-ic · 32 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zxdxvnif5bkazfbc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vibeic/vibe-ic/spec-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b072878db4ed46abe92d19da355f6b24c2ccc99c2e006edfd35987382c7c68d5
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