format-first skillA
format-first is agent-read markdown (skill) from broomva/skills: 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 b.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/format-first@git:20260819.6ffdbadmdr add broomva/skills/format-first@sha256:2376d26a5f8f4c76Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jjbyeq2x627aekhe)
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Versions
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 · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · 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
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