performing-close-reading SKILL.md skillA
performing-close-reading from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/performing-close-reading@v2.1.0Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers
- Path
skills/performing-close-reading/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 12,122 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Use when an interpretation must be grounded in specific textual, visual, rhetorical, formal, interface, archival, performative, or material features rather than thematic summary or theoretical labeling.
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
# Performing Close Reading ## Purpose Produce accountable interpretations by separating what is observable in an object from the interpretive moves made about it. The skill keeps quotation, description, inference, contextual claim, and theoretical implication distinct while allowing them to interact. ## Contract **Accepts** - A supplied passage, image, scene, interface, recording, performance description, archival item, or material artifact. - Provenance and context available to the researcher. - A research question or claim to test. **Requires** - Direct access to the object or a reliable reproduction. - Enough context to avoid obvious misidentification or truncation. - A stated analytical purpose. **Produces** - Observation records. - Interpretive inferences linked to observed features. - At least one rival reading. - Contextual claims requiring verification. - A close-reading gate report. **May produce** - A revised local claim. - A list of additional contextual sources needed. - `FAIL` when the object is unavailable, corrupted, mistranscribed, or insufficient for the requested conclusion. **Fails when** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/performing-close-reading@sha256:5e0c8a8907e78ee1The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, 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_jn3xxuaedcisdr57)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 29 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | 1bc2e1c | 12,122 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-08-21 | 5d72da4 | 12,122 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-19 | 262e1c6 | 10,622 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 (12122 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
icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jn3xxuaedcisdr57 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/performing-close-reading GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5e0c8a8907e78ee159ba9aac005fb8b32272549a0d9e333810f400b9cbeac6e4
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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.