headline-writer SKILL.md skillA

headline-writer from kenashe/x-article-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add kenashe/x-article-toolkit/headline-writer@git:20261002.3d8f8f0

Pins git:20261002.3d8f8f0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
kenashe/x-article-toolkit
Path
shared/original-source/headline-writer/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261002.3d8f8f0, committed Oct 2, 2026
Size
6,165 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Write, score and improve headlines for X Articles (and other long posts) with rules measured on 40,478 X Articles: 6,835 that passed 100k views and 33,643 that stayed under 100k. Use whenever you need a headline or a title, want headline options for a draft, ask which headline is stronger, or type /headline-writer. Self-learning: approved headlines, verbatim feedback and real view counts feed the banks every run.

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

# HEADLINE WRITER
 
What this is: a headline procedure built from 40,478 X Articles: 6,835 over 100k views and 33,643 under, Jan 1 to Sep 26, 2026, research by @fuckgrowth (the X article "how to write better headlines"). Every rule compares winners with failures from same-size accounts in the same topic, so a big account or a hot topic can't make a pattern look good. The dataset (every article over 100k views, tagged with the moves, failure marks and level used below) is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GIl5AAbi5VD34plMPaeoU60zh2Q3pWfyCOKvjsTlZ4Q and as csv at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GIl5AAbi5VD34plMPaeoU60zh2Q3pWfyCOKvjsTlZ4Q/export?format=csv&gid=0 and every number, with the method, is in the research doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10UnoOKmYl0bzqpYmE2QeTlkMG8sZvU-zezulmgWfeNg
 
## INSTALL
Save the files of this skill as ~/.claude/skills/headline-writer/ (SKILL.md, rules.md, templates.md, scripts/headline_check.py), then download the dataset next to SKILL.md:
```
curl -L -o ~/.claude/skills/headline-writer/articles_over_100k.csv "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GIl5AAbi5VD34plMPaeoU60zh2Q3pWfyCOKvjsTlZ4Q/export?format=csv&gid=0"
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add kenashe/x-article-toolkit/headline-writer@sha256:44e798b4a0962408

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.3d8f8f0, 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 Oct 2, 2026.

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git:20261002.3d8f8f0 latest2026-10-02 3d8f8f0 6,165 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6165 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

GitHub

kenashe/x-article-toolkit · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hj3lnkojzls72h4t
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kenashe/x-article-toolkit/headline-writer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/44e798b4a096240890b1447b82c0c56de7836ef6cd530aaf104d7bd2cc9b1e31

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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