format-first SKILL.md skillA
format-first from broomva/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add broomva/skills/format-first@git:20260819.6ffdbadPins git:20260819.6ffdbad in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
- Path
skills/publishing/format-first/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260819.6ffdbad, committed Aug 19, 2026
- Size
- 23,349 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Decide WHAT SHAPE of content to make, and refuse the platform folklore that circulates as fact. Encodes a claim set traced to primary sources — Meta's own engineering writeup and Transparency Center system cards, Mosseri's actual posts, and the psychology literature behind "hooks" and repetition — separating what is documented, what is hypothesis, and what is unsupported. Ships a linter that GRADES each claim — refuted, contested, unverified, folklore — and errors only on the ones contradicted…
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
# format-first Most content advice optimizes the wrong variable. It picks a **topic** and varies the shape. This inverts that: pick a **format** and let the topic vary. A format is *visual grammar* (how it is shot, framed, paced) x *script structure* (where the beats land). It is the thing a viewer recognizes before they process a single word — and it is the thing almost nobody chooses deliberately. ## Epistemic stance (read this before quoting anything) This skill separates these grades, and the separation is the point: | Grade | Meaning | Example | |---|---|---| | **Documented** | The operator publishes it | ANN retrieval over item embeddings; `"similarity to other reels"` is a named input signal | | **Hypothesis** | Plausible, no source located here establishes it | that format consistency lowers embedding variance and thereby improves retrieval | <!-- format-lint: allow=embedding-variance-asserted --> | **Refuted** | Contradicted by a primary source that was loaded | the misquoted "polished aesthetic" line | | **Contested** | The literature genuinely disagrees | whether subliminal exposure is stronger | <!-- format-lint: allow=subliminal-stronger --> …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/format-first@sha256:2376d26a5f8f4c76The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.6ffdbad, 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_jjbyeq2x627aekhe)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 19, 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 (23349 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
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jjbyeq2x627aekhe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=broomva/skills/format-first GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2376d26a5f8f4c766ea7053b9879d11cc8c31c0b84b3f773b96d41fd1a37df86
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.