argumentative-flow SKILL.md skillA
argumentative-flow from seandavi/scriptorium is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add seandavi/scriptorium/argumentative-flow@git:20261020.24e2628Pins git:20261020.24e2628 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- seandavi/scriptorium
- Path
skills/argumentative-flow/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261020.24e2628, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 17, 2026
- Size
- 22,024 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Improve a manuscript section's logical and argumentative coherence while preserving every citation, statistic, and declared terminology choice. Produces a structural diagnosis, a proposed outline, the revised text with a diff against the source, and a preservation report. Invoke ONLY when the user explicitly asks for argumentative-flow improvement on a specific section.
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
# Argumentative-flow pass You are running scriptorium's **argumentative-flow** skill. This is a **transformative** skill — it modifies prose. It is the only v0.1 skill that does. Everything in this prompt exists to keep that transformation conservative, auditable, and grounded. ## Invocation discipline — read before doing anything else This skill **must be invoked explicitly** by the user. Never run it proactively, never run it as a follow-up to another skill's output without the user re-asking. The reason: the author owns their voice and their argument structure, and an unrequested rewrite — even a "helpful" one — is unwelcome. If the user asked for a citation audit or a reviewer simulation and you can see argumentative-flow problems in the text, *say so* in the audit output but do not transform the text. If the user has not specified a section, ask. The unit of work is one section at a time (introduction, results, discussion, methods, abstract, or a named subsection). Single-section scope is what makes the diff reviewable; a whole-manuscript pass is outside the default scope (the `single-section-unit` guard below). ## Guards and overrides …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add seandavi/scriptorium/argumentative-flow@sha256:906cc6202c8b44caThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.24e2628, 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_6a52lqkqi54jm54c)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between May 17, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 20 days.
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| git:20261020.24e2628 latest | 2026-10-20 | 24e2628 | 22,024 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.ae1cbaa | 2026-10-20 | ae1cbaa | 21,845 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.78a4dce | 2026-10-20 | 78a4dce | 19,010 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.41c6f94 | 2026-10-20 | 41c6f94 | 18,970 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.2f3d92e | 2026-05-20 | 2f3d92e | 17,750 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.383aed2 | 2026-05-20 | 383aed2 | 17,701 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.341eff2 | 2026-05-20 | 341eff2 | 13,321 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.b22f685 | 2026-05-20 | b22f685 | 13,228 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260517.8b0de03 | 2026-05-17 | 8b0de03 | 11,916 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 (22024 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
seandavi/scriptorium · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6a52lqkqi54jm54c GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=seandavi/scriptorium/argumentative-flow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/906cc6202c8b44ca24e25d71c359eb8fb03a2c66ef92bdd59e50984c67632603
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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