show-your-work-kleon SKILL.md skillA
show-your-work-kleon from simbajigege/book2skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon@git:20260501.32e482dPins git:20260501.32e482d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- simbajigege/book2skills
- Path
skills/show-your-work-kleon/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260501.32e482d, committed May 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 26, 2026
- Size
- 14,036 bytes
- Repository stars
- 202
- License
- MIT
Apply Austin Kleon''s sharing framework. Trigger on: "what should I share?", "build an audience", "document my creative process".
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
## Core Philosophy Austin Kleon's *Show Your Work!* makes a single counterintuitive argument: **you don't need talent, credentials, or a finished body of work before you start sharing. You need to share the process of becoming.** The audience finds you not because of what you've produced, but because they recognize themselves in how you work. The fundamental reframe: stop thinking "I need to finish this before I can share it." Start thinking "sharing IS the work." --- ## When to Use This Skill Use this skill for queries that match the trigger phrases in the description and require applying the decision framework from *Show Your Work!* rather than summarizing the book. ## The Framework ### Principle 1: Scenius Over Genius Kleon borrows the term "scenius" from Brian Eno — the idea that creativity is not the product of lone geniuses but of **collaborative ecology**: a group of people in the same scene who share ideas, steal from each other generously, build on each other's work. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon@sha256:1fa910d12532b1e6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260501.32e482d, 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 Mar 26, 2026 and May 1, 2026, about one every 36 days.
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| git:20260501.32e482d latest | 2026-05-01 | 32e482d | 14,036 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-26 | a0df705 | 11,629 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 (14036 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
simbajigege/book2skills · 202 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-08-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2pr2uloscniewadp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1fa910d12532b1e639dea8f61323629696281817db47d22e8c2ac675916c18dc
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.
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