german-technical-writing skillA
german-technical-writing is agent-read markdown (skill) from netresearch/german-technical-writing-skill: Use when writing German-language prose longer than one sentence for Jira tickets, internal German wiki/spec docs, or team-chat to German-speaking colleagues (Slack, Matrix, Teams). Invoke BEFORE composing. Covers anglicism verbs (failt, triggern, returnen), calqued collocations and idioms (blockiert auf, macht Sinn, in 2026), loanword genders (der Commit, die Pipeline), per-artifact register (impersonal for Jira/wiki, ich/du for chat), German typography (Gedankenstrich, Anführungszeichen, Durchk.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# German Technical Writing Natural German technical register for German-audience artifacts — not English-first composition phrase-translated into DeepL-German. ## Process 1. **Compose in German directly**, not by translating. Restart if you catch yourself drafting English first. 2. **Self-review each sentence** against `references/anti-patterns.md` — verbs, collocations, idioms, Amtsdeutsch. 3. **Apply the lexicon** — canonical verbs and loanword gender: `references/lexicon.md`. 4. **Match register per artifact** — impersonal for Jira/wiki, ich/du for chat: `references/register.md`. 5. **Typography & rhythm** — Gedankenstrich, Durchkopplung; each mechanism explained once, varied sentence shapes: `references/typografie-rhythmus.md`. 6. **Verständlichkeit** — unambiguous references, conditions kept while shortening, structure over word count: `references/cognitive-accessibility.md`. 7. **No editorializing** — say what changed, not how good the work is: `references/no-editorializing.md`. 8. **Decide ordinary style questions yourself; never invent a fact.** Ask only where an ambiguity changes the technical statement and the context cannot resolve it. …
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How to install
mdr add netresearch/german-technical-writing-skill/german-technical-writing@v1.6.0mdr add netresearch/german-technical-writing-skill/german-technical-writing@sha256:f26e3e1e3d9c391ePin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gr4bxu3vxl3e4y3e)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.6.0 latest | 2026-09-20 | abfe8fe | 4,364 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.5.2 | 2026-09-19 | 80aab07 | 4,364 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.5.2 | 2026-09-12 | 27e8814 | 3,779 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.5.1 | 2026-09-11 | 1b083e4 | 3,779 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.5.0 | 2026-08-27 | 017781e | 3,779 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.1 | 2026-08-13 | ea78eb1 | 3,779 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4.0 | 2026-08-08 | ba48f35 | 3,779 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 (4364 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
netresearch/german-technical-writing-skill · 6 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gr4bxu3vxl3e4y3e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=netresearch/german-technical-writing-skill/german-technical-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f26e3e1e3d9c391e29e13fb47b5428936e073e8553fc2507d748e8763eaa3f55
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