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strategic-reading skillA

strategic-reading is agent-read markdown (skill) from garrytan/gbrain: Read a book, article, transcript, or case study through the lens of a specific strategic problem you're facing. Produces an applied playbook that maps the source onto the problem and gives short/medium/long-term recommendations. NOT for general book summaries..

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What the file says

# strategic-reading — Applied Analysis from Source Texts

> **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for
> citation rules (every recommendation cites the source) and back-link
> enforcement.
>
> **Convention:** see [_brain-filing-rules.md](../_brain-filing-rules.md) —
> output files by primary subject (concepts/ for general strategy, projects/
> for problem-tied playbooks).

## What this is

Take a large text PLUS a specific strategic problem, produce analysis that
maps the text's insights onto the problem. This is not book summarization.
This is reading with a mission.

Where `book-mirror` personalizes a book to the reader's whole life,
`strategic-reading` personalizes it to ONE current problem. Same shape
(extract → analyze → mirror), different lens.

**Canonical example:** a power-dynamics history book read against a
specific gatekeeper-vs-incumbent fight, producing a tactical analysis that
maps the book's playbook onto the situation with counter-tactics and a
short/medium/long-term playbook.

## Inputs

1. **Source text** — book (EPUB/PDF), article, transcript, historical case
   study, any large document.
…

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How to install

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mdr add garrytan/gbrain/strategic-reading@v0.1.0
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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7002 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

GitHub

garrytan/gbrain · 30,275 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4ocotmwos35n4oqo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/strategic-reading
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5be656c39c830153ec7c2f328dc8bdeac05c1412b01b3415de6b5b008926e7a2

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