writing SKILL.md skillA
writing from agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry/writing@v1.2Pins v1.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry
- Path
.claude/skills/writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.2, committed Oct 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 2, 2026
- Size
- 16,646 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,038
- License
- Apache-2.0
Write prose people will actually read. Use for any prose you produce - docs, READMEs, release notes, blog posts, PR descriptions, issue text, commit bodies, design docs, emails, chat answers. Applies Orwell's six rules and strips the LLM tells - passive voice, dead metaphors, and -ly padding.
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 Skill If you want people to read your stuff, follow Orwell's rules. LLMs are not your friends. They write in passive voice, mix figures of speech that do not fit together, and pad every sentence with -ly words. Cut all of it. ## Orwell's rules 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. Never use the passive where you can use the active. 5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. 6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. Rule 6 outranks the other five. A stiff sentence that obeys rules 1-5 is worse than a plain one that breaks one of them. ## How to apply each rule ### 1. No stock figures of speech Kill any phrase you have read a hundred times. If two images sit in one sentence, they will clash and the reader sees nothing. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry/writing@sha256:adc1facdf7ff3324The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2, 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_jcctvtmlbqzzt6eq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 2, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2 latest | 2026-10-31 | 7c64a2d | 16,646 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-10-02 | 792c000 | 13,365 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-10-02 | e699306 | 13,945 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 (16646 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
agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry · 1,038 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jcctvtmlbqzzt6eq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry/writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/adc1facdf7ff332414a17b1a0348f247cc36915326dafeb847557b9a72ec90aa
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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