write-docs SKILL.md skillA
write-docs from flagrare/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add flagrare/agent-skills/write-docs@git:20261030.be544f0Pins git:20261030.be544f0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- flagrare/agent-skills
- Path
plugins/flagrare/skills/write-docs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261030.be544f0, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 28,487 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- none declared
Write documentation that reads like a person wrote it for another person. The skill teaches the craft layer first, how to set context, how to calibrate tone, how to escape the curse of knowledge, when prose beats a bullet list, and only then the structural conventions (Diátaxis modes, README landing-page arc). Use whenever you're writing or restructuring a README, a docs tree, a CONTRIBUTING file, a guide, an architecture document, or any other documentation surface.
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
# Write docs Most bad documentation is not unclear, ungrammatical, or factually wrong. It is technically correct prose that nobody wants to read, written by someone who already knows the answer for an imagined reader who knows almost as much. The fix is not another style rule. The fix is to write the way a person teaches another person, assuming nothing, leading with the situation the reader is actually in, providing context where it lands rather than where it's tidiest, and resisting the urge to convert every paragraph into a bulleted enumeration. This skill teaches the craft first and the conventions second. The craft is what makes a docs page feel earned. The conventions just keep you out of the most expensive failure modes. Four sources do the heavy lifting: - **[Steven Pinker, *The Sense of Style*](https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/the-curse-of-knowledge-pinker-describes-a-key-cause-of-bad-writing)** for *the curse of knowledge* and *classic style*. - **[Chip & Dan Heath, *Made to Stick*](https://heathbrothers.com/made-to-stick-introduction/)** for *tappers and listeners* (Newton 1990) and concrete-over-abstract diction. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add flagrare/agent-skills/write-docs@sha256:d8109bdd7d90b40fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.be544f0, 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_glwx3imbderehak4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 40 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261030.be544f0 latest | 2026-10-30 | be544f0 | 28,487 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.226e3e6 | 2026-10-08 | 226e3e6 | 28,303 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260703.68bffd8 | 2026-07-03 | 68bffd8 | 25,444 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.9c42181 | 2026-06-11 | 9c42181 | 25,236 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.b33bded | 2026-05-22 | b33bded | 24,792 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 (28487 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
flagrare/agent-skills · 12 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_glwx3imbderehak4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=flagrare/agent-skills/write-docs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d8109bdd7d90b40fc2707548053172bd7487f31b5dc972c441b36c27ba3f3d03
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.
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