writing-axes SKILL.md skillA
writing-axes from matt-w-horn/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add matt-w-horn/skills/writing-axes@git:20260808.12b68e0Pins git:20260808.12b68e0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- matt-w-horn/skills
- Path
skills/writing-axes/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260808.12b68e0, committed Aug 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 16,628 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Audience-and-goal-first drafting, review, and rewriting for any human-facing prose. Use whenever the user asks to write, rewrite, draft, critique, review, or edit a document, including blog posts, READMEs, papers, emails, docs, runbooks, error messages, release notes, incident reports, announcements, and forum posts. Also use when asked for a title, headline, or subject line, or to check something before posting or publishing it to a public venue; when asked to "de-AI", "de-slop…
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
# Writing axes Every document serves one reader making one decision. Route any writing or review task through four gates: reader, goal, axis, and whether to write at all. Then apply the rules for the axis in play. Axis rules live in `references/`. The verified source library behind them lives in `references/sources/`. Cite sources from those files, never from memory. ## The four gates Run them in order. Each answer constrains the next. ### Gate 1: who is the reader? One person, at one moment. Resolve five things: - What they already know. This sets the vocabulary and what can go unexplained. - What they are about to do. This sets what the text must equip them for. - What they are deciding. This produces the axis (Gate 3). - Who else will see it. Email gets forwarded, papers get excerpted into review notes, READMEs get skimmed by people the author never pictured. Design for the furthest plausible reader. - Their relationship to the writer, and whether this text changes it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add matt-w-horn/skills/writing-axes@sha256:9396cc280ed567b9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260808.12b68e0, 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_j3bbqjrfbrdj3izx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Aug 8, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260808.12b68e0 latest | 2026-08-08 | 12b68e0 | 16,628 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260807.c93558e | 2026-08-07 | c93558e | 14,579 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.2bc00ea | 2026-08-05 | 2bc00ea | 12,743 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 (16628 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
matt-w-horn/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_j3bbqjrfbrdj3izx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=matt-w-horn/skills/writing-axes GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9396cc280ed567b9d79d49233922733eb312b039b03e7aa6e4e49dc8f10bef38
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