publishing SKILL.md skillA
publishing 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/publishing@git:20261101.14c9cfcPins git:20261101.14c9cfc 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/publishing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 13
- Latest version
- git:20261101.14c9cfc, committed Nov 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 17,574 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "self-publish", "publish my book", "ISBN", "copyright page", "book metadata", "BISAC", "keywords", "KDP", "IngramSpark", "Draft2Digital", "go wide", "Kindle Unlimited", "print interior", "trim size", "paperback", "ebook", "EPUB", "cover wrap", "spine width", "pricing", "launch plan", "ARC team", "advance readers", "newsletter", "reader magnet", "Amazon ads", "BookBub", "rights", "foreign rights", "audio rights", "film rights…
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
# Publishing ## Overview Take a final manuscript into readers' hands. This skill fills the publishing metadata in `story.md`, writes the copyright page, builds and checks the ebook and print interior, walks the author through distribution, pricing, and launch, and keeps an inventory of the rights the author holds. Planning files live under `publishing/` in the story project. The author makes every account, upload, purchase, payment, and signature; this skill prepares, checks, and records. ## Prerequisites A story project whose manuscript is final or nearly so. Verify `story.md` exists and read `title`, `status`, `author` or `authors`, `genre`, `series`, `book-number`, `cover`, and any publishing fields already set. If `status` is not `complete`, say that metadata and launch planning can start now but the files must be rebuilt after the last revision. ## Language And Market Read `language` in `story.md` (a missing field means `en`) and ask which countries the author is publishing in. The book's language decides the language of the description, keywords, and copyright page; the market decides the ISBN agency, subject schemes, retailers, and pricing rules. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/publishing@sha256:9d8048e0d740ec41The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261101.14c9cfc, 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_ior6w2shoqj4nv57)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 13 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Nov 1, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261101.14c9cfc latest | 2026-11-01 | 14c9cfc | 17,574 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.4b8019d | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 17,089 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.91b56e5 | 2026-10-08 | 91b56e5 | 16,948 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.b7447f8 | 2026-10-07 | b7447f8 | 16,775 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.b770f53 | 2026-10-07 | b770f53 | 16,982 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.a8b3f01 | 2026-10-07 | a8b3f01 | 16,561 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.f83f1d7 | 2026-10-07 | f83f1d7 | 16,582 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.880a47b | 2026-10-02 | 880a47b | 12,785 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.39fac5f | 2026-09-27 | 39fac5f | 11,348 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.a42e274 | 2026-09-27 | a42e274 | 11,488 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.7b61fd4 | 2026-09-25 | 7b61fd4 | 11,215 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.26a0c5b | 2026-09-24 | 26a0c5b | 10,312 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.f9090b8 | 2026-09-24 | f9090b8 | 10,953 B | A | view |
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 (17574 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
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 395 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ior6w2shoqj4nv57 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/publishing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d8048e0d740ec4116eeeaa0e0942a5eebaec91f5f70837b421dcbbed3331d15
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