# black-heron

> black-heron — jlipak-black-heron. Use this tool when you need to audit and govern your code repositories with a robust and multi-faceted approach, solving problems of code quality, security, and compliance. It provides four review lenses, an adversarial verifier, and versioned rubric, with outputs in SARIF format, and can be integrated as a GitHub Action or used as a Python CLI. Use black-heron to ensure your repositories meet high standards, with inputs from your git repository and outputs informing your development and security workflows.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/jlipak-black-heron  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jlipak-black-heron

## Description

Governance-first repository audit agent: four review lenses, an adversarial verifier, versioned rubric, SARIF output, MCP server and a drop-in GitHub Action. Python CLI and Claude Code skill.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.95
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/jlipak/black-heron)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "jlipak-black-heron"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jlipak-black-heron` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jlipak-black-heron/pull`

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