synthesis-reader-briefing SKILL.md skillA
synthesis-reader-briefing from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-reader-briefing@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills
- Path
skills/synthesis-reader-briefing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 6,728 bytes
- Repository stars
- 23
- License
- Apache-2.0
Pre-writing reader briefing, required before drafting a public article that draws on internal source material. Catches insider context collapse and declares series dependency. Use to write or plan an article, brief the audience, do pre-writing, ask who this is for, or settle a prerequisite.
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
# Reader Briefing A pre-writing discipline for public articles. The briefing is a short structured document, written before drafting begins, that establishes who the article is for and what they bring to the page. It is the audit anchor that the rest of the writing process compares against. This skill is foundation infrastructure. Other writing skills (`synthesis-article-writing`, `synthesis-article-refresh`, the various backdated- and refresh-style skills) treat a committed briefing as a hard precondition: without one, they refuse to proceed. ## Binding rules 1. **No public article draft without a committed briefing.** Write `.briefing.md` beside the draft and commit it before drafting; dependent skills refuse to proceed without one, because drafting without it is the failure this skill prevents. 2. **Answer the four questions specifically, in plain prose,** one paragraph each. "Everyone" or "they understand the topic better" is not an answer. 3. **Let the answers set the structure,** not a template: the genre's shape (universal-frame-first, scene-first, claim-first, problem-first) follows from them. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-reader-briefing@sha256:6aa82b512b998a8aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fkkb4tcjrnl4bbcb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 34 days.
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-10-05 | 227204f | 6,728 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-29 | 07a3710 | 15,195 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-29 | 9b134e7 | 13,060 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6728 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
synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fkkb4tcjrnl4bbcb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-reader-briefing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6aa82b512b998a8aa35aad564267aa4b48327026da87b32ba0ff95a54e46c03b
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