documentation-audit SKILL.md skillA
documentation-audit from karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/documentation-audit@git:20260926.35dafddPins git:20260926.35dafdd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills
- Path
plugins/mad-scientist-skills/skills/documentation-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260926.35dafdd, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 28, 2026
- Size
- 68,649 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive documentation audit with two modes and a single tier. Planning mode designs documentation strategy, content type maps, learning paths, and scaffolding architecture. Audit mode evaluates linguistic precision (Strunk & White, Google/Microsoft style guides), structural taxonomy (Diataxis quadrant classification, Good Docs Project), pedagogical scaffolding (Carroll's Minimalism, Cognitive Load Theory, Merrill's First Principles, Lemov techniques), cross-document consistency…
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
# Documentation Audit A comprehensive documentation audit with two modes and a single tier: **Modes:** - **Planning** (before docs exist) — documentation strategy design, content type mapping, learning path architecture, scaffolding strategy - **Audit** (on existing docs) — linguistic precision, structural taxonomy, pedagogical effectiveness, consistency, repository architecture, audience calibration, completeness and freshness **Single tier:** Unlike security auditing, documentation evaluation is methodology-based (style guide application, framework classification, cognitive load analysis), not tool-licensed. Vale, markdownlint, and the analytical frameworks are all free/open-source. The value is in the analytical framework, not the scanner. **Core question:** "Does this documentation teach effectively?" ## Academic foundations This skill synthesizes seven research threads into a single audit methodology: 1. **Classical Composition** (Strunk & White 1918/1959) — Omit needless words, active voice, positive form, specific/concrete language, parallel construction. The foundational linguistic layer beneath all documentation quality. …
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How to install
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/documentation-audit@sha256:683957de26f6cfb4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.35dafdd, 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 4 versions of this file, between Mar 28, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 61 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260926.35dafdd latest | 2026-09-26 | 35dafdd | 68,649 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260408.0324348 | 2026-04-08 | 0324348 | 68,636 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260329.f91268f | 2026-03-29 | f91268f | 66,578 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260328.6497f49 | 2026-03-28 | 6497f49 | 66,439 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 (68649 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
karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6ojgydo7xalmflwm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/documentation-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/683957de26f6cfb42c189819929ddd75f9d63530f6481806f5a602ce5b82ec1a
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