performance-review-coach SKILL.md skillA
performance-review-coach from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/performance-review-coach@git:20260521.7c05f96Pins git:20260521.7c05f96 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
skills/performance-review-coach/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260521.7c05f96, committed May 21, 2026
- Size
- 7,358 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Drafts and critiques performance reviews using Glenn Kramon's seven rules from Stanford GSB's Winning Writing course. Use when the user is writing an annual review, mid-year check-in, self-review, 360 feedback, peer review, or any written feedback for an employee, boss, partner, or themselves. Triggers on phrases like "performance review," "annual review," "self-review," "write up my feedback for," "review my report's performance," "evaluate my employee," "write feedback for [name]…
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
# Performance-review coach Source: `points/performance-review-rules.md` and `points/banned-jargon.md`. Read those first. ## What this skill does Given a draft review (or a target person + context), produce a review that the recipient would save if their house were on fire. Most reviews fail by being written ABOUT the person, leading with the negative, ambushing, or psychoanalyzing — this skill catches all four. ## The philosophy in one line A review is a **letter to one person**, not a report card sent up to management. Read aloud, it should sound like you talking to them. If it reads like it's written to their mother, rewrite it. ## Mode 1 — Draft from scratch If the user gives you a person + context, walk through Kramon's seven rules **in order** before writing: 1. **Letter form** — write to them, not about them. *"You ably led..."* not *"Glenn ably led..."* 2. **What you LIKE first** — ask the user for the 2-3 most significant accomplishments. Cite colleagues if any said something specific. Never lead with the negative. Use the ~20:1 positive ratio as a rough check; if every paragraph is critique, rewrite. …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/performance-review-coach@sha256:df3fa8f9f77050dfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260521.7c05f96, 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 1 version of this file, committed on May 21, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
kalyvask/winning-writing · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fsiqxih4rwavhn6c GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/performance-review-coach GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df3fa8f9f77050dfa472944ab9c8fe90f29e57510f6aabd4ef11b2b0a8e3e189
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