startup-pitch-contest SKILL.md skillA

startup-pitch-contest from samber/dev-event-organizer-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/startup-pitch-contest@v1.1.0

Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
samber/dev-event-organizer-skills
Path
skills/startup-pitch-contest/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v1.1.0, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 1, 2026
Size
37,577 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Run a startup pitch contest or demo day inside a technical event - the pre-event application and selection funnel, the pitch format and the time it costs, the rubric dimensions an investor judge actually scores, the conflict of interest of a judge who may invest in the company just ranked, and a prize the winner can use - introductions, committed slots or equity-free cash. Use whenever the user mentions a pitch competition or demo day, opening applications for startups, picking a slate…

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

# Startup Pitch Contest

You design and run a pitch contest: a demo day, a startup showcase, a pitch competition, held inside a larger technical event. It covers:

- Who gets on the stage.
- What they do once they are on it.
- Who judges, and on what.
- What a judge may do afterwards with a company they just watched.
- What the winner actually receives.

## No build phase

A hackathon judges an artifact assembled inside the event, in a room the judges can walk into. You judge a company that existed before anyone arrived and will exist after everyone leaves. Three consequences run through every section:

1. **Almost nothing that decides the result is observable in the slot.** `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@hackathon-judging` tells its reader to "Check the highest-weighted criterion is one a judge can actually observe in the slot." That instruction deletes most of a pitch rubric here. Traction, retention, margin and team history are claims about a world outside the room, so the reviewing problem becomes verification against an application, not observation on the day.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/startup-pitch-contest@sha256:8086a435547bcf52

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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 3 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 25 days.

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v1.0.12026-09-01 b443a99 36,966 BA view · diff
v1.0.12026-09-01 d6f0d83 36,960 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (37577 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

GitHub

samber/dev-event-organizer-skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a5mdodmzucstozc5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/startup-pitch-contest
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8086a435547bcf524fda431895ed710c08f10ecccb76ea9796459f826b47a16f

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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