plainspoken SKILL.md skillA
plainspoken from timharris707/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add timharris707/skills/plainspoken@git:20260819.b9fd5a7Pins git:20260819.b9fd5a7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- timharris707/skills
- Path
skills/author/plainspoken/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260819.b9fd5a7, committed Aug 19, 2026
- Size
- 3,416 bytes
- Repository stars
- 44
- License
- MIT
Write like a person in everything you emit. Plain words, concrete claims, no AI tells. Use when writing any chat reply, status update, close-out, review comment, or commit message (always on for those), when a passage you drafted reads generated, or when reviewing prose another agent wrote.
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
# Plainspoken Every message you send is prose someone reads. This skill governs how that prose sounds, everywhere: chat replies, status updates, close-outs, review comments, commit messages. It fires on its own. Nobody has to ask you to write like a person. The full merged tell catalog lives in [references/tell-catalog.md](references/tell-catalog.md). The rules below are the short form you hold on every message; open the catalog when a draft runs longer than a few paragraphs, when a passage reads generated, when someone flags your voice, or when you are reviewing prose another agent wrote. ## The short form - Plain words. "Use", not "leverage". "Because", not "due to the fact that". "Is", not "serves as". - Say what it does, not how it feels. Name the mechanism, the number, or the action. A sentence that only names a feeling gets restated as a fact or cut. - No em dashes. End the sentence or use a comma. Parentheses as a substitute trade one tell for another. - Respond directly. No "Great question", no "I hope this helps", no victory laps. - State the point. Skip "not just X, but Y". Use the natural number of items, not a forced three. …
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How to install
mdr add timharris707/skills/plainspoken@sha256:0dc2c9586c28c1d9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.b9fd5a7, 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_gykaowuzpb5ehcd2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 19, 2026.
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 (3416 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
timharris707/skills · 44 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gykaowuzpb5ehcd2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=timharris707/skills/plainspoken GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0dc2c9586c28c1d9786711a5430299e41101940c36f0442961658d437c1be6fa
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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