writing-clearly-and-concisely SKILL.md skillA
writing-clearly-and-concisely 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/writing-clearly-and-concisely@git:20260812.afc9950Pins git:20260812.afc9950 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/writing-clearly-and-concisely/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260812.afc9950, committed Aug 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 31, 2026
- Size
- 3,218 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Use when writing prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Applies Strunk's timeless rules for clearer, stronger, more professional writing.
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
# Writing Clearly and Concisely ## Overview Write with clarity and force. This skill covers what to do (Strunk) and what not to do (AI patterns). ## Limited Context Strategy When context is tight: 1. Write your draft using judgment 2. If native delegation is available, assign a **read-only review role** the draft and one relevant section file 3. Have that role return a copyedited revision without writing files; the main context accepts or adjusts it 4. If delegation is unavailable, load that one section and perform the copyedit sequentially in the main context Loading a single section (~1,000-4,500 tokens) instead of everything saves significant context. Use the current CLI's built-in explorer/reviewer; do not require a custom agent name or vendor-specific task schema. ## Elements of Style William Strunk Jr.'s *The Elements of Style* (1918) is the reference. The rules most violated in practice: - **Use active voice** — passive buries the agent and weakens sentences - **Put statements in positive form** — "he was not honest" → "he was dishonest" - **Use definite, specific, concrete language** — vague nouns and abstract claims lose readers …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dannykkh/skill-olympus/writing-clearly-and-concisely@sha256:9704f1a910db3840The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260812.afc9950, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jan 31, 2026 and Aug 12, 2026, about one every 97 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260812.afc9950 latest | 2026-08-12 | afc9950 | 3,218 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260318.4ba4f0c | 2026-03-18 | 4ba4f0c | 2,889 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260131.9f78a80 | 2026-01-31 | 9f78a80 | 3,768 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 (3218 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 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3gc4rzi2n6a2nspd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dannykkh/skill-olympus/writing-clearly-and-concisely GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9704f1a910db384020f1a6c8d60ae1184712a9370dc32a826c501b56642bac95
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