irrelevant-detail-killer SKILL.md skillA
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irrelevant-detail-killer from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/irrelevant-detail-killer@git:20260522.8896ed6Pins git:20260522.8896ed6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
side-panel-coach/rules/skills/irrelevant-detail-killer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260522.8896ed6, committed May 22, 2026
- Size
- 7,486 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Cuts cinematic details that don't serve the main point. The opposite move from vividness. Vividness adds sensory detail; this skill removes detail that's vivid but distracts from the argument. Use when a narrative paragraph has impressive sensory texture (sounds, colors, weather, mechanics of an unrelated scene) that the reader has to push past to get to the point. Triggers on "eliminate irrelevant detail," "tighten the narrative," "the details are great but distract…
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What the file says
# Irrelevant detail killer Source: Glenn Kramon's *Winning Writing* — the rule named explicitly in class as *"essential to great writing."* The two-word version: **eliminate irrelevant detail.** ## The problem this skill solves Strong writers know to be cinematic. They put scenes, sensory details, dates, and dialogue into their prose. The danger is the opposite of generic writing: *too much* cinematic texture, and the details start to distract from the argument the piece is making. A draft can have vivid detail and still fail to move the reader, because the reader is being asked to absorb sensory information that doesn't lead anywhere. The mechanics outside the gate, the weather, the sounds of the street, the eccentric neighbor — all might be real, all might be memorable, none might serve the piece. The two questions to ask of every detail in a narrative paragraph: 1. **Does this detail serve the main point?** 2. **If I cut it, what is lost — texture, or the argument?** If the answer to 1 is no and the answer to 2 is *texture*, cut it. If the answer to 2 is *the argument*, keep it. ## When this differs from sibling skills …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/irrelevant-detail-killer@sha256:54e7ef353fd027cbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.8896ed6, 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
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 22, 2026.
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
kalyvask/winning-writing · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jajtgldxfegnstej GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/irrelevant-detail-killer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54e7ef353fd027cb7d0ddebfc949ce503aced08636c69a35f04790f060ded117
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