grim:polish SKILL.md skillA

grim:polish from mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim:polish@git:20260827.f7d7117

Pins git:20260827.f7d7117 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome
Path
plugins/grim-core/skills/grim:polish/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260827.f7d7117, committed Aug 27, 2026
Size
1,739 bytes
Repository stars
35
License
MIT

Polish: Take slop and improve it. Elevate and create craft & ART.

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

# Polish

## Onboarding
This is a skill to reduce slop then imbue art, and high craft.
The polish skill is one of the most abstract and unusual in this collection, but also one of my favorites. 

Use it to brainstorm ways to improve things. Great for when planning or reviewing.

It consists of 3 parts
Goal
Token List
Outro

The token list is the core of the prompt, it's a list of values and words used to nudge your agent into specific headspaces and token distributions

The version presented here is very minimal. My full list is about 5x longer, so far.

You will need to customize this skill for maximum effect.

This will not work fully unless you define what you want good to be. You need to define the values, qualities and ideals that you want AI to prioritize when polishing.

## Goal

Take slop and improve it. Elevate and create craft & art

Aim to create and refine art
Look for ways to improve, evolve, iterate, polish, smooth

# Token List, Consider these themes

ART!
Craft
Elegance
Spark Joy
Simplify
Cut, Reduce
UX & Flow

## Proposals

Propose ways to polish, make a list with 10 options and variants of each. Numbered and lettered in a list, explaining each briefly.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim:polish@sha256:e3c01e06611477cc

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260827.f7d7117, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_362ckpggtvfyz7tm.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_362ckpggtvfyz7tm)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 27, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260827.f7d7117 latest2026-08-27 f7d7117 1,739 BA view

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 (1739 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

mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_362ckpggtvfyz7tm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mindgoblinstudios/grim-tome/grim:polish
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e3c01e06611477cca5342856ed61ecaeb5ad719a2786b821f5f8ecb7123c16f3

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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