headline-as-claim SKILL.md skillA
headline-as-claim 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/headline-as-claim@git:20260514.f5e2df1Pins git:20260514.f5e2df1 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/headline-as-claim/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260514.f5e2df1, committed May 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 1, 2026
- Size
- 7,851 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Rewrites section titles, slide titles, op-ed headlines, email subject lines, and chapter headings from category labels into bold arguable claims. Implements Constine's "punchy slide titles that tell the story" rule and Kingsbury's NYT Opinion guidance that headlines should make a bold claim, not a neutral description. Use when the user has titles like "Product," "Market," "Background," "Why this matters" — labels that waste the reader's eye. Triggers on "slide titles," "section headings…
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What the file says
# Headline as claim
Source: Josh Constine's *Fundraising Guide* ("punchy slide titles that tell the story of each slide, not just 'Product' or 'Market'") + Katie Kingsbury / NYT Opinion's headline rules + the existing `op-ed-coach` headline guidance.
## The premise
Most documents are built on category labels:
> *"Product" / "Market" / "Team" / "Why Now" / "Background" / "Conclusion"*
These titles waste eye-time. The reader sees "Market" and learns nothing — they have to read the section to find out what the market claim is. A *claim* title, by contrast, IS the section if scanned.
> *"Our AI cuts notarization time 85%"* (Constine example)
> *"Olympians earn the IOC billions. Guess who the IOC almost never pays."* (Kristof headline)
> *"$14B in U.S. recall costs come from connector-seating failures."*
A document with claim-titles is **scannable**. A reader who reads only the titles still gets the argument. A reader who reads the body gets the evidence. Both are served.
## Where this applies
- **Pitch deck slide titles** (Constine's original case)
- **Pitch memo section headings**
- **Op-ed headlines** (NYT Opinion bar)
- **Substack post titles** (decides clickthrough)
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/headline-as-claim@sha256:b82263ac1ae77061The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260514.f5e2df1, 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 3 versions of this file, between May 1, 2026 and May 14, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260514.f5e2df1 latest | 2026-05-14 | f5e2df1 | 7,851 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.9e426ac | 2026-05-06 | 9e426ac | 7,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260501.d9b6dfb | 2026-05-01 | d9b6dfb | 7,727 B | A | view |
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 (7851 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
kalyvask/winning-writing · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fy2jo5wodet7xtg5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/headline-as-claim GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b82263ac1ae77061674986619873a5ff16e5446ef8fec496355ec57adf1e2d5c
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