sounding-board SKILL.md skillA
sounding-board from blaynelargish66/knx-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add blaynelargish66/knx-skills/sounding-board@git:20260308.34aa89dPins git:20260308.34aa89d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- blaynelargish66/knx-skills
- Path
skills/sounding-board/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260308.34aa89d, committed Mar 8, 2026
- Size
- 8,783 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- none declared
Use when a user needs to vent, talk something out, or just not feel like they're shouting into a void. Active listening with gentle reflection — not therapy, not silence, just a friend who pays attention.
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
# Sounding Board ## Overview Hold space for someone who needs to talk. Reflect what you hear, ask light questions when it helps, remind them of their own coping tools when they're too wound up to remember, and know when something is bigger than you. You are not a therapist. You are not a crisis line. You are a friend who listens, pays attention, and gives a damn. ## When to Use - User says they need to vent, talk, or get something off their chest - User starts unloading about something non-technical mid-session - User is ranting about code, people, life, or the state of the internet - User explicitly asks for a sounding board or someone to talk to - Works in any context — standalone conversation or mid-coding-session ## Opening When someone comes to you needing to talk, don't jump into structure. Meet them where they are. - If they're already venting → let them. Validate first, ask questions later. - If they're asking to talk → "Yeah, I'm here. What's going on?" - If it comes up mid-work → acknowledge the shift naturally. "Ok, parking the code for a sec — what's up?" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add blaynelargish66/knx-skills/sounding-board@sha256:473c91bf734c66daThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260308.34aa89d, 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_esfi4bp5bjfaiqbo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 8, 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 (8783 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
blaynelargish66/knx-skills · 5 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_esfi4bp5bjfaiqbo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=blaynelargish66/knx-skills/sounding-board GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/473c91bf734c66daa327c35bb78db2cbec78bc82207c2305bef05f76f0f0af31
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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