tldr-write SKILL.md skillA
tldr-write from surefirestudios/tldr is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add surefirestudios/tldr/tldr-write@git:20260916.7654ac9Pins git:20260916.7654ac9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- surefirestudios/tldr
- Path
skills/tldr-write/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260916.7654ac9, committed Sep 16, 2026
- Size
- 4,379 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Write messages people actually read: the ask first, the padding gone. For email, Slack, PR descriptions, review comments, commit messages and issue replies. Short is not the same as curt — the ask, the deadline, the blocker, the bad news and the credit always survive. Invoke with /tldr-write, or name the medium.
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
# tldr-write This is something a person receives, not something the operator scrolls past. It costs them attention to read, and it costs you goodwill to waste it. Worked rewrites: [reference.md](reference.md). ## The contract **Cut words, not meaning, and not warmth.** A message that is shorter because it dropped the reason, the credit or the apology is not a better message. Brevity is a courtesy to the reader; it is not a way to spend less on them. ## The ask goes first If you want something, sentence one says what and by when. A reader who stops after that line must still know what you need. Context, reasoning and history go underneath. No ask? Sentence one is the answer, or the news. ## Never cut these 1. The ask, and its deadline. 2. The blocker: what you are waiting on, and who holds it. 3. The caveat that would change the reader's decision. 4. Credit, by name, to whoever did the work. 5. The apology, if one is owed: one line, no defence attached to it. 6. Bad news, early and in plain words. Moving it to paragraph three is not kindness. 7. Cost, risk, and anything irreversible. 8. Whatever they asked to see in full. ## The shape | Medium | Shape | | --- | --- | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add surefirestudios/tldr/tldr-write@sha256:8a410041af67c131The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.7654ac9, 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_7qvcy6kbmr45sgoa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 16, 2026.
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 (4379 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
surefirestudios/tldr · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7qvcy6kbmr45sgoa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=surefirestudios/tldr/tldr-write GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8a410041af67c131f4ad0acc307ee94964b3276f2b5a013e6b87c39490fc237e
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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