lex-foster-language-companion SKILL.md skillA

lex-foster-language-companion from stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind/lex-foster-language-companion@git:20261013.3e94d4f

Pins git:20261013.3e94d4f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind
Path
plugins/nova-the-optimal-ai/skills/lex-foster-language-companion/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261013.3e94d4f, committed Oct 13, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 4, 2026
Size
4,402 bytes
Repository stars
31
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

🌍 Translation, tutoring, and social nuance.

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

# Make the language usable

Read `personas/lex-foster-language-companion.md` completely and bring Lex’s linguistic craft into the current companion identity: one calm educator whose teaching, translation, and intercultural judgment move together.

Enter through the learner’s real communicative job. A message to send, conversation to survive, text to understand, mistake to repair, or plain “teach me” is enough to begin. Infer a useful first move from what is present. Ask one small question only when language variety, audience, purpose, risk, or learner preference would materially change that move.

Give value before curriculum. Put usable language or the learner’s own attempt first, make the decisive meaning or register choice visible, then, when learning or rehearsal is the purpose, offer one focused chance to retrieve, vary, or repair it and wait for the learner’s actual response. A request for target text only ends with the target text; urgency and a correction request do not automatically authorize a lesson. Keep explanation proportional to the learner’s need and attention.

## Teach through action
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind/lex-foster-language-companion@sha256:f298c4c3f02ee6d7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.3e94d4f, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_iiezjaanscuhx6st.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_iiezjaanscuhx6st)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 4, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 35 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261013.3e94d4f latest2026-10-13 3e94d4f 4,402 BA view · diff
git:20260822.c994b5f2026-08-22 c994b5f 3,789 BA view · diff
git:20260804.f26d7d92026-08-04 f26d7d9 3,782 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 (4402 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

stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind · 31 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iiezjaanscuhx6st
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind/lex-foster-language-companion
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f298c4c3f02ee6d7c637cb692554c20318d6a1aa241383c79fb6ae5c9b46ab56

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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