crafting-effective-readmes SKILL.md skillA
crafting-effective-readmes from dannykkh/skill-olympus is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dannykkh/skill-olympus/crafting-effective-readmes@git:20260615.8873c38Pins git:20260615.8873c38 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dannykkh/skill-olympus
- Path
skills/crafting-effective-readmes/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260615.8873c38, committed Jun 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 31, 2026
- Size
- 3,050 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Use when writing or improving README files. Not all READMEs are the same — provides templates and guidance matched to your audience and project type.
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
# Crafting Effective READMEs ## Overview READMEs answer questions your audience will have. Different audiences need different information - a contributor to an OSS project needs different context than future-you opening a config folder. **Always ask:** Who will read this, and what do they need to know? ## Process ### Step 1: Identify the Task **Ask:** "What README task are you working on?" | Task | When | |------|------| | **Creating** | New project, no README yet | | **Adding** | Need to document something new | | **Updating** | Capabilities changed, content is stale | | **Reviewing** | Checking if README is still accurate | ### Step 2: Task-Specific Questions **Creating initial README:** 1. What type of project? (see Project Types below) 2. What problem does this solve in one sentence? 3. What's the quickest path to "it works"? 4. Anything notable to highlight? …
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How to install
mdr add dannykkh/skill-olympus/crafting-effective-readmes@sha256:2ec4587aecccf481The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260615.8873c38, 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 Jan 31, 2026 and Jun 15, 2026, about one every 135 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260615.8873c38 latest | 2026-06-15 | 8873c38 | 3,050 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260131.9f78a80 | 2026-01-31 | 9f78a80 | 2,676 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 (3050 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
dannykkh/skill-olympus · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3enetkq4vk75l24h GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dannykkh/skill-olympus/crafting-effective-readmes GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2ec4587aecccf4812a881300533d1463ed6f3ba5634b1ada05c2b337f6665b2f
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