study SKILL.md skillA
study from harmix/open-stanley is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add harmix/open-stanley/study@git:20261106.3d78a48Pins git:20261106.3d78a48 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- harmix/open-stanley
- Path
open-stanley/skills/study/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261106.3d78a48, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 12, 2026
- Size
- 4,855 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Learn how a specific writer wins on LinkedIn or X — Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah, Yamini Rangan, Yuriy Zaremba, or anyone the user names — by reading their recent posts through the user's browser and extracting reusable *shapes* (openers, structures, endings, specificity moves, cadence) into a shapes catalog, never their sentences. Use when the user says "write like Paul Graham", "learn from X's posts", "why do their posts work", "study my competitor", or when write needs a shape for a lane.…
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
# Study: shapes, not sentences
"Copy Paul Graham's style" was the most repeated instruction in the chat log this plugin came from, and the paid product answered it with adjectives ("plain, one thought, no structure") and then wrote 120-word essays. A style is learned from examples and stored as *shapes*: the moves a writer makes that another writer can make with different material. Sentences stay with their author.
## 1. Read
Through the `browser` capability, logged in as the user: the creator's LinkedIn recent-activity page (posts tab) and X profile. Collect 20–40 posts with dates and engagement. Sort by engagement relative to their own median; the top quartile is what to learn from, the bottom quartile is what to avoid. Save the raw pull to `inbox/study-<handle>-<date>.md` (private; it's for analysis, never for reuse).
If the browser is unavailable, search results expose first lines and comment counts; that is enough for openers and cadence, not for structure. Say which you had.
## 2. Extract shapes
For each top-quartile post, name the moves. Use the vocabulary in `references/shape-vocabulary.md` so shapes are comparable across creators:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harmix/open-stanley/study@sha256:dfdcff5ee5dd2220The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.3d78a48, 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_2hfukma3ytybo6oz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 12, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 27 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261106.3d78a48 latest | 2026-11-06 | 3d78a48 | 4,855 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261106.76dab21 | 2026-11-06 | 76dab21 | 4,774 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.ec207d5 | 2026-09-12 | ec207d5 | 3,469 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 (4855 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
harmix/open-stanley · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2hfukma3ytybo6oz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harmix/open-stanley/study GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dfdcff5ee5dd22205ba2da8834482e47730537802f3e56dfc8cb7ff8aebd7c1c
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.
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