writing-skills is agent-read markdown (skill) from coco-research/coco: Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Writing Skills
## Overview
**Announce at start:** "Writing Skills skill activated."
**Writing skills IS Test-Driven Development applied to process documentation.**
**Personal skills live in agent-specific directories (`~/.claude/skills` for Claude Code, `~/.agents/skills/` for Codex)**
You write test cases (pressure scenarios with subagents), watch them fail (baseline behavior), write the skill (documentation), watch tests pass (agents comply), and refactor (close loopholes).
**Core principle:** If you didn't watch an agent fail without the skill, you don't know if the skill teaches the right thing.
**REQUIRED BACKGROUND:** You MUST understand superpowers:test-driven-development before using this skill. That skill defines the fundamental RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle. This skill adapts TDD to documentation.
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Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dneg2v63fml3dckl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coco-research/coco/writing-skills
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7e2226c0e0b1c4b3e55de6a61c5697fcf6c4a3fa3fd77ecc9b8c674d411cbe88
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