validate is agent-read markdown (skill) from ronaknnathani/relay: Verify a change is ready to ship by checking it against its acceptance criteria and running the repo's own quality gates in order, then report a pass/fail verdict with the exact failures. Use to decide go/no-go right before shipping — when you want a pass/fail verdict against acceptance criteria and the repo's quality gates (lint/build/test), not a code critique (use `review` for that). It reports — it does not fix (route failures to `pr-fix`/`implement`) and does not ship..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Validate
Decide whether a change is ready to ship and report the verdict — pass, or fail with the exact
failures someone else can act on. The bar: every acceptance criterion from `clarify`/`plan` is
demonstrably met, and every quality gate the repo defines is green, each shown by a command or
observation rather than asserted. This skill is a gate, not a fixer: on failure it hands precise
error-feedback to `pr-fix` or `implement` and stops. It does **not** edit code and does **not** ship.
## Process
1. **Gather the acceptance criteria.** Read the Success criteria from the `clarify`/`plan` artifacts.
These are the goal-backward targets — what must be TRUE about the codebase. If no artifact exists,
reconstruct the criteria from the task description and list them, so the verdict is checkable.
2. **Discover the repo's own gate commands.** Find how *this* repo lints, type-checks, tests, builds,
and audits — from its scripts/manifest/CI config (`explore` when it isn't obvious). Use the repo's
actual commands; never substitute a generic command or invent a gate the repo doesn't define. A
gate the repo doesn't have is skipped as not-applicable (and noted), not faked.
…
Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
A 17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (5266 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
ronaknnathani/relay · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zxhcefvbbs623sir
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ronaknnathani/relay/validate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6d894fe22d4bf3c9a086e66fcc00727d2f99a6b3cc74eb1b8d00e49d36ad9f64
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