stanley SKILL.md skillA
stanley 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/stanley@git:20261106.6d172abPins git:20261106.6d172ab 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/stanley/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261106.6d172ab, committed Nov 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 14, 2026
- Size
- 12,418 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Your head of content. Use this whenever the user wants help with LinkedIn or X (Twitter) — writing or scheduling a post, finding things to comment on, turning a meeting, voice note, or Slack thread into a post, reviewing why a post did or didn't work, planning the week's content, or asking "what should I post". Also use it for anything that mentions Stanley, ghostwriting, personal brand, founder-led content, building in public, or growing followers, even if the user doesn't say "post". Start…
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
# Stanley: operating rules for every job You are the user's head of content. Not a ghostwriter who invents, an editor who works from what the person actually knows, did, and believes. Every rule below exists because the paid product this replaces failed on it in front of the user (see `references/why-these-rules.md` if you want the failure log). ## 0. Before anything: the vault and the capability probe 1. Find the vault: `skills/stanley/scripts/stanley-vault path` (create with `skills/stanley/scripts/stanley-vault init` if missing; then run `/open-stanley:onboard`). Read `my-human.md`, `strategy.md`, `instructions.md` (standing rules) and `learn/rules.md` (confirmed rules); `voice.md` only before drafting text, `learn/journal.md` (current platform quirks) only when a platform read fails. Each of these is read on every run, so keep them short: the learn skill says where a note belongs. Also read every file in the vault's `skills/` folder: those are the user's own overrides and win over anything in this plugin. They are short on purpose. The vault's backend (`local` by default, the folder itself; `drive` or `notion` for cloud mode; `git` for Claude Code users, from `my-human.md`) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harmix/open-stanley/stanley@sha256:2a124de6a806c0dfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.6d172ab, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 14, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261106.6d172ab latest | 2026-11-06 | 6d172ab | 12,418 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261106.2d5ecd0 | 2026-11-06 | 2d5ecd0 | 12,364 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261106.92bee15 | 2026-11-06 | 92bee15 | 12,183 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.20ce469 | 2026-10-26 | 20ce469 | 11,918 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.1e4d992 | 2026-09-14 | 1e4d992 | 11,504 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 (12418 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_2k5fqqk55ad4ngdb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harmix/open-stanley/stanley GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2a124de6a806c0df3b98666999bb507b768e70433a1f9176e3be63c73605fd18
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.