verse-craft SKILL.md skillA
verse-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/verse-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/verse-craft/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 10,266 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a poem", "write a limerick", "write a sonnet", "haiku", "villanelle", "ballad", "song lyrics", "a song for my character", "a rhyme", "rhyming couplets", "does this scan", "check the meter", "fix the rhythm of this poem", "rhyme scheme", "iambic pentameter", "a prophecy in verse", "a nursery rhyme", "rhyming picture book", or wants verse written, scanned, or revised, whether inside a story project or as a standalone poem. NOT for accidental…
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
# Verse Craft ## Overview Write, scan, and revise verse: fixed forms such as the limerick, sonnet, haiku, and villanelle; ballads and song lyrics; rhyming picture-book text; and verse that lives inside a story (a character's song, a prophecy, a skipping rhyme). Every claim that a line scans is shown, not asserted: the agent marks the stresses, counts the syllables, and labels the rhyme scheme so the author can check the work. The author's poem is the standard; propose changes, do not rewrite it wholesale. ## Prerequisites None. A standalone poem needs no project: save it where the user asks, as a plain `.md` file. Verse that belongs to a story needs the story project, `story.md` (POV, tone, era), and the file of the character who speaks or sings it. ## When to Use - Writing a new poem, limerick, song, or rhyme in a given form - Checking whether an existing poem scans or keeps its rhyme scheme - Fixing meter, forced rhymes, or padded lines in a draft poem - Verse inside a story: a character's song, a riddle, a prophecy, an epigraph the author writes themselves - Rhyming text for a picture book (plan the spreads with `adaptation`, write and scan the verse here) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/verse-craft@sha256:b4825fcd343371c3The 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 10,266 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.64621cc | 2026-10-08 | 64621cc | 10,125 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.a8b3f01 | 2026-10-07 | a8b3f01 | 10,124 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.484ba49 | 2026-10-07 | 484ba49 | 10,090 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.8632942 | 2026-10-07 | 8632942 | 10,075 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.9b5d289 | 2026-10-07 | 9b5d289 | 10,075 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.880a47b | 2026-10-02 | 880a47b | 8,593 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.59cb90c | 2026-09-27 | 59cb90c | 7,733 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.c5f59dc | 2026-09-27 | c5f59dc | 7,173 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.ff3136e | 2026-09-27 | ff3136e | 7,466 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 (10266 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_64y5y4vdz6n74agz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/verse-craft GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b4825fcd343371c38c9b12d56665c14186e2c5d853dc5316b865d015b29244c1
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