honest-technical-oratory SKILL.md skillA

honest-technical-oratory from annatchijova/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add annatchijova/skills/honest-technical-oratory@git:20261001.ad40ee2

Pins git:20261001.ad40ee2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
annatchijova/skills
Path
honest-technical-oratory/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261001.ad40ee2, committed Oct 1, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 23, 2026
Size
10,463 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Present a technical project out loud, under a real time limit, to an audience that may not share your vocabulary or technical background — without hyping unearned claims, without opening on caveats, and without inventing an answer live rather than saying "I don't know." Use whenever preparing or delivering a pitch, demo, talk, or hackathon presentation; whenever deciding what goes on a slide versus what stays for Q&A; or whenever a draft pitch either overclaims or buries its own value under…

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

# Honest Technical Oratory

A pitch has no link to a Technical README. Whatever is said in the room is
the whole document, for as long as the room is paying attention, and it
cannot be revised after the fact. That constraint — real time, no inline
footnote, an audience that may not share your vocabulary — is what makes
this a different discipline from writing, not a shorter version of the same
one.

Composes with the library:

- **readme-architecture** — governs the written material this
  presentation is built on and hands off to (the README, the Technical
  README); this skill governs the spoken delivery of a subset of that same
  content under a hard time limit. Don't restate that skill's ordering
  logic here — cite it for the underlying claim-ordering principle and
  apply it to what fits in the time available.
- **daubert-defensible-writing** — the claim discipline (fact / inference /
  opinion, bounded beats absolute) still governs every sentence spoken
  here. What's different is the failure mode: a written document can carry
  a footnote next to an ambitious claim; a spoken pitch cannot, so the
  claim itself has to be scoped correctly in the moment, not qualified
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add annatchijova/skills/honest-technical-oratory@sha256:cc478a11f8cfbeda

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.ad40ee2, 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 2 versions of this file, between Sep 23, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 8 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (10463 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

annatchijova/skills · 9 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2mjgm2ul2vwezzuw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=annatchijova/skills/honest-technical-oratory
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cc478a11f8cfbeda4a4ed32bd93dd96154ebe15ab60ae72b7f62c60c823bdc06

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