vividness SKILL.md skillA
vividness from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
side-panel-coach/rules/skills/vividness/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260522.8896ed6, committed May 22, 2026
- Size
- 12,356 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Pushes a draft from abstract toward concrete at two scales. Noun-level (replaces "dog" with "German shepherd," "customer" with "Sarah at JPMorgan's options-trading desk," "many" with "47 of 100") and scene-level (turns "I was angry" into the body signal, room, and dialogue). Implements Kramon's "specific over abstract" rule, Kristof's "real names, real numbers, real interviews," and Lauren Weinstein's "could a director recreate this scene?" test. Use when a draft is technically correct but…
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What the file says
# Vividness Source: `points/core-rules.md` rule 2 (know your audience), Kramon's rule that **stories are 12× more memorable than statistics alone**, Lauren Weinstein's guest lecture in Glenn Kramon's *Winning Writing* (GSB, Spring 2026). ## What this skill does Two modes behind one skill. Both push abstract → concrete; they operate at different scales: | Mode | Replaces | Use when | |---|---|---| | **noun-level** | "dog" → "German shepherd," "customer" → "Sarah at JPMorgan," "many" → "47 of 100" | Draft has category nouns the reader has to fill in | | **scene-level** | "I was angry" → body signal + room + dialogue + moment | Story is technically correct but flat | Default `--mode both` runs noun-level first (fixes generic words), then scene-level (turns key moments into scenes). The order matters: noun replacements provide the concrete material a scene needs. ## How to invoke ``` /vividness "draft text" /vividness --mode noun-level "draft text" /vividness --mode scene-level "draft text" /vividness --mode both "draft text" ``` Without `--mode`, default to `both`. ## A note on examples …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/vividness@sha256:eda8f100685ec050The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.8896ed6, 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.
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Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5esspbfzvfaou6aw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/vividness GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eda8f100685ec0505546fa0ddac918211c44a7d82b75c13ac77e8a1496709768
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