literate-programming SKILL.md skillA
literate-programming from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/literate-programming@git:20260406.60a61caPins git:20260406.60a61ca in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
- Path
ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/literate-programming/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260406.60a61ca, committed Apr 6, 2026
- Size
- 6,712 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Use when creating new source files, writing new functions or types, or significantly rewriting existing code — ensures code is structured for humans to read first, with narrative preambles, reasoning-based documentation, and presentation ordered by understanding rather than compiler convention.
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
# Literate Programming
## Overview
Don Knuth's core insight: **code is written for humans to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.** This skill applies a pragmatic version of that principle — not Knuth's web/tangle toolchain, but the discipline of writing code whose structure and documentation make the reasoning visible to the next reader.
Every file is a piece of writing, not just a collection of declarations.
---
## The Five Rules
### 1. Every file opens with a narrative preamble
The preamble answers three questions:
- **Why does this file exist?** What problem does it solve, and why is it the right place to solve it?
- **What are the key design decisions?** Not a list of functions — the choices that shaped the structure.
- **What does this file deliberately NOT do?** Explicit scope exclusions are as informative as inclusions.
The preamble belongs in the package/module comment block, before any imports. It is prose, not bullet points.
**Before (no preamble):**
```go
package cache
import (
"sync"
"time"
)
type Cache struct { ... }
```
**After (with preamble):**
```go
// Package cache provides a short-lived, in-process store for rendered page
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/literate-programming@sha256:7c94cb9f19921629The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260406.60a61ca, 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_ile56blfkt5pwxmi)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 6, 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 (6712 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
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 121 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ile56blfkt5pwxmi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/literate-programming GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7c94cb9f19921629a8fa7e0746b23f1bc17c78f0e7913a6950005336bf2befb7
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