clarke-dawe-esque SKILL.md skillA
clarke-dawe-esque from pantheon-org/tekhne is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/clarke-dawe-esque@git:20260824.34ad58bPins git:20260824.34ad58b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pantheon-org/tekhne
- Path
skills/comedy/clarke-dawe-esque/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260824.34ad58b, committed Aug 24, 2026
- Size
- 14,541 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Write an original deadpan two-person political-satire interview sketch (a mock-interview bit, not a monologue, panel show, or sitcom scene) using terse questions, absolutely-confident literal-minded answers, repetition, bureaucratic logic, and escalating contradiction, in the tradition of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's satirical news interviews. Use this when a user asks for a satirical interview, mock-interview sketch, deadpan two-hander, or "Clarke and Dawe style" bit built around a policy…
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
# Deadpan Two-Person Political Satire ## Mindset The comedy works because two reasonable-sounding voices calmly walk toward an absurd conclusion without either of them ever admitting it is absurd — the moment either character reacts with visible surprise, outrage, or a wink to the audience, the premise collapses because the joke's engine is the *mismatch* between flat delivery and outrageous content, not the content alone. ## When to Use - The user asks for a satirical interview, mock press conference, or two-hander sketch about a policy, government announcement, corporate statement, or institutional failure. - The user names "Clarke and Dawe," "mock interview," "deadpan political satire," or describes wanting terse Q&A that escalates into absurdity. - The target is a fictional or generic official/spokesperson responding to an interviewer about a real-world *category* of subject (e.g. "a housing minister," "a bank spokesperson") rather than a specific real transcript to reproduce. ## When NOT to Use …
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How to install
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/clarke-dawe-esque@sha256:7c1ac7a915c99b20The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260824.34ad58b, 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_cdakuigwjugtixz6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 24, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cdakuigwjugtixz6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pantheon-org/tekhne/clarke-dawe-esque GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7c1ac7a915c99b2076596d83d569b83aa933fa5d85a2621c93c2c481b8313225
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