first-reader SKILL.md skillA
first-reader from mizchi/explainer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mizchi/explainer/first-reader@git:20260925.3356251Pins git:20260925.3356251 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mizchi/explainer
- Path
skills/first-reader/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260925.3356251, committed Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 17,042 bytes
- Repository stars
- 452
- License
- MIT
Beta readers for any draft, run by simulating how a real reader experiences it, moment by moment. A skim gate, a no-lookahead timed read producing an attention transcript with quit points, a recall test of what a reader remembers the next day, and a trust ledger of the implied author. Use when the user asks for a beta read, beta readers, test readers, human review, reader review, to read something like a human, to be a first reader, whether a piece holds attention or will actually get read…
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
# first-reader
Readers before you publish.
Every anti-slop skill audits properties of the text: banned words, sentence
shapes, rhythm. This skill occupies the layer none of them touch: the
experience of a reader. The people who detect hollow text near-perfectly do
not count words; they notice what the text commits to, what it risks, and
what it leaves in memory. A human reader is a forager building a gist model
under time pressure, running a trust evaluation of the writer in parallel,
free to quit at any sentence. This skill reproduces that reader and reports
what happened to them.
It produces a reading, not an audit. Run it as the final gate before
publishing.
## The user contract (read this first, it overrides everything below)
To the user, this skill is a beta-reading session: a few readers with
lives met their draft cold and can be consulted afterwards. Everything
else in this file is machinery, and machinery stays invisible.
- **"review this"** (or "be my first reader") starts a run. Reply with
one line ("Reading it as your audience would. Back in about 5
minutes."), then work silently. At most one message mid-run, and only
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mizchi/explainer/first-reader@sha256:51ead158e27a65efThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.3356251, 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_42dg57zuhyd4w2xx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 25, 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 (17042 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
mizchi/explainer · 452 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_42dg57zuhyd4w2xx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mizchi/explainer/first-reader GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51ead158e27a65eff7c1bacc5db8a89d1ed1101b44b3b57fa05440f60582d55d
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.