reader-panel SKILL.md skillA
reader-panel from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/reader-panel@git:20261014.4b8019dPins git:20261014.4b8019d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danjdewhurst/story-skills
- Path
skills/reader-panel/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 14
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 14,131 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks for a "simulated beta read", "reader panel", "persona read", "first read before my beta readers", "how would a genre reader react", "would a reader keep going", "pre-beta read", "mock beta readers", or wants structured persona reads of a chapter range before human readers see it. NOT for real reader feedback (use feedback-triage), a paid sensitivity or authenticity read (use editorial-review), or the agent's own line edit (use line-editing).
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
# Reader Panel ## Overview Run structured persona reads of a chapter range and write each one as a feedback file in the shape `feedback-triage` already reads, so the existing triage flow takes over unchanged. The panel is a first read before human readers see the draft: it finds the problems a reader would trip on, so the human round spends its attention on what only people can tell you. Every panel read is simulated. It is written by the agent, marked `source: simulated`, and never presented as feedback from a real reader. ## Prerequisites A story project (`story.md` in the root) with the chapters in range drafted. The `feedback-triage` skill must be available for the synthesis. ## When to Use - Before the first beta round, to catch the obvious problems cheaply - After a revision, to check a fix landed before sending it to people - When the user has no readers yet and wants a structured first read - NOT as a substitute for human readers. A simulated round cannot close a book as `ready` for submission or publication - NOT for a sensitivity or authenticity read. The sensitivity persona only flags passages for a paid human reader (use `editorial-review`) ## Personas …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/reader-panel@sha256:3e4b37acf8ea06b4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.4b8019d, 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
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 14,131 B | A | view · diff |
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Audit of the latest version
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Source
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 395 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hlnqva6vfpy3bwre GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/reader-panel GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3e4b37acf8ea06b4737202703a1af4c8ffc027560b472e5e7f437513f6f7c7ac
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