genre-craft SKILL.md skillA
genre-craft from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/genre-craft@git:20261014.4b8019dPins git:20261014.4b8019d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danjdewhurst/story-skills
- Path
skills/genre-craft/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 11
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 10,742 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks about "mystery", "fair play", "clue", "red herring", "romance beats", "HEA", "thriller", "ticking clock", "horror", "dread", "MG", "YA", "middle grade", "young adult", "science fiction", "sci-fi", "fantasy", "quest", "chosen one", "historical fiction", "period voice", "anachronism", "comedy", "humour", "humor", "romcom", "farce", "satire", "running gag", "serial", "episodic", "web serial", "genre conventions", or wants genre-specific structural…
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
# Genre Craft ## Overview Genre-specific structural packs: the codified craft each genre expects, as checkable rules, ledgers, and audits. Packs cover mystery (fair play + clue ledger), romance (beats + HEA contract), thriller (ticking clock, power imbalance, set pieces), horror (dread/terror ordering, monster rules), MG/YA (category constraints), science fiction (load-bearing speculative elements), fantasy (quest structure, magic paid off by its rules and costs), historical fiction (period voice, anachronisms, real people), comedy (escalation, comic set-ups and payoffs, tone), and serial/episodic structure. Use at story-init (pick the pack, set the constraints) and in revision (run the pack's audit). ## Prerequisites A story project must already exist (created via the story-init skill) with its genre recorded in `story.md`. A plot structure (plot-structure) should exist or be in progress. ## When to Use - Starting or re-categorizing a story in one of the covered genres - Planning genre load-bearing elements (clues, clocks, season goals) - Auditing a draft against its genre's contract - NOT for line-level genre voice (that belongs to the `better-writing` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/genre-craft@sha256:2c0cc5ac249c7c61The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.4b8019d, 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_4cndnoti6mufcjm6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 10,742 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.9025121 | 2026-10-07 | 9025121 | 10,588 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.c2e5a07 | 2026-10-07 | c2e5a07 | 10,601 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.dc5bcc7 | 2026-10-07 | dc5bcc7 | 10,470 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.24cbd32 | 2026-10-07 | 24cbd32 | 9,645 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.78db5fc | 2026-10-07 | 78db5fc | 9,576 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.75adac0 | 2026-09-27 | 75adac0 | 6,873 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.640a5ad | 2026-09-24 | 640a5ad | 6,637 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.f9090b8 | 2026-09-24 | f9090b8 | 6,680 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.f646308 | 2026-09-20 | f646308 | 6,151 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.5444aa3 | 2026-09-20 | 5444aa3 | 6,098 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 (10742 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
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 395 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4cndnoti6mufcjm6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/genre-craft GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2c0cc5ac249c7c6169da383117d7a3da90f7a487c8cba968f1d3213158c87bb7
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