guideline-writing SKILL.md skillA
guideline-writing from alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom/guideline-writing@git:20260724.b1fa9cfPins git:20260724.b1fa9cf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom
- Path
.claude/skills/guideline-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260724.b1fa9cf, committed Jul 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 15, 2026
- Size
- 9,910 bytes
- Repository stars
- 172
- License
- MIT
Guideline-authoring craft for instruction SoTs (.claude/ guides, CLAUDE.md, plan files) — operative rules vs recital, MUST/SHOULD/MAY force tiers, pruning, bloat control, blind review protocol, deliberation-narrative ban. Use when writing, editing, or reviewing an agent instruction file, policy, runbook, command SoT, or plan file, or when a guideline change needs a minimal-edit or blind review.
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
# Guideline Writing Craft for authoring the instruction layer itself — the `.claude/` guide SoTs, `CLAUDE.md`, and plan files. Content pages have the four content-craft skills (jrn·con·enc·cit); this skill is their counterpart for the meta layer. Dotted IDs: `gdl.*` ([criteria.json](criteria.json)); the deterministic detectors live in [checks.py](checks.py) and run inside `python tools/lint.py meta`. ## Operative Rule vs Recital Every sentence in a guideline is one of two kinds, and only the first belongs in the body: - **Operative rule** — tells the reader what to do, when, and how to tell they did it right. Test: delete the sentence; if an executor could now act differently and still believe they complied, the sentence was operative. - **Recital** — explains how the rule came to be: options weighed, benchmarks absorbed, incidents survived, dates adopted. Recitals are history; history's SoT is `log.md` (append-only). A recital in the body is **deliberation narrative** — the central antipattern this skill exists to prevent. …
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How to install
mdr add alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom/guideline-writing@sha256:8f43de54961094aaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260724.b1fa9cf, 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_57g6nc4z4iolp5qk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 15, 2026 and Jul 24, 2026, about one every 4 days.
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| git:20260724.b1fa9cf latest | 2026-07-24 | b1fa9cf | 9,910 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260715.e46ab80 | 2026-07-15 | e46ab80 | 9,317 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260715.b73d0af | 2026-07-15 | b73d0af | 9,166 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 (9910 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
alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom · 172 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_57g6nc4z4iolp5qk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom/guideline-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8f43de54961094aaeb56e2afc96ad813ff56a3a8f18c28e2cba0518caf08b36e
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