no-yap SKILL.md skillA
no-yap from ananthanandanan/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/no-yap@git:20260731.f59675aPins git:20260731.f59675a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ananthanandanan/skills
- Path
skills/productivity/no-yap/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260731.f59675a, committed Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 5,730 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Answer in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — the numbered-clause, one-idea-per-sentence style of an aircraft maintenance manual — instead of a wall of prose. Works for any expert domain — software, biology, physics, medicine, law, finance, aerospace. Use whenever the user invokes /ank:no-yap, or says "explain it simply", "no yapping", "keep it structured", "give me the short version", "STE style", "plain English", or otherwise signals they want a dense explanation restructured into…
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
# No yap The user knows their field. They do not want a lecture — they want the **facts, in order, in short sentences**. Rewrite what you would normally say into ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. Answer **inline in chat only**; never create a file, never offer to. This works for any domain. The subject may be a race condition, an enzyme pathway, a hydraulic failure, a clause in a contract, or a shift in a balance sheet. The style does not change. **Simplify the language, never the subject** — an STE answer is short because the sentences are short, not because facts were dropped. ## Ground it first Before writing a single clause, verify every claim against whatever source is actually available — grep the repo and read the function, open the paper or datasheet, check the log, run `git log`/`git diff` on the range in question. STE's terseness makes a wrong statement look authoritative, so an unverified sentence is worse here than in normal prose. Never invent a file path, line number, figure, dosage, measurement, date, or citation. If something is genuinely unknown, give it its own clause: `1.4 The cause of the timeout is not known.` Do not soften it into a guess. When… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ananthanandanan/skills/no-yap@sha256:4286a0605f30f54fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260731.f59675a, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3s4apvtd3yeb6umo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 31, 2026.
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 (5730 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
ananthanandanan/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3s4apvtd3yeb6umo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ananthanandanan/skills/no-yap GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4286a0605f30f54f747f611d96a04bf9b38e3caaf87f0e1013de289f695e3ec4
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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.