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writing from madarauchiha-314/the-loop is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing@git:20260912.2726e25Pins git:20260912.2726e25 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- madarauchiha-314/the-loop
- Path
skills/writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260912.2726e25, committed Sep 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 4,330 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
How the-loop writes for a human reader. Use when authoring or revising any artifact a person will read — requirements.md, design.md, testing-plan.md, tasks.md, a PR briefing or PR description, a decision record, a capability doc, a ticket or review comment, a README. Carries the document spine, the prefer-a-diagram rule, the formal-language carve-out that keeps EARS and API contracts intact, and a revise pass for cutting a draft down. Not for code, code comments, log messages or test names.
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 for a human reader A reviewer's job is to say yes or no. Every word between them and that decision is a cost you are charging them. Write to be approved, not to be admired. > **The rule:** say it once, to a named reader, in the fewest words that survive review. ## Who is reading Name the reader before the first sentence. A reviewer of `design.md` knows the codebase and wants the shape of the change. A `capability.md` reader wants current behaviour and does not care how it arrived. A ticket comment is read on a phone. The same fact is a paragraph for one and a table row for another. ## The spine Every explanatory document answers four questions, in this order: 1. **What was broken** — the situation, and why it mattered enough to open a ticket. 2. **What we did about it** — the resolution, stated as a decision, not a tour. 3. **What it costs** — the trade-off taken, the thing given up, the risk carried. 4. **What to check** — where the reader should look first, and what would falsify it. Front-load each one. A section's first sentence carries its conclusion; the rest is support the reader may skip. Read only the first sentence of every section — if that alone …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing@sha256:1413fec0a5a87c84The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.2726e25, 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_jvfjn3zq6ybojdr3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 6, 2026 and Sep 12, 2026, about one every 37 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260912.2726e25 latest | 2026-09-12 | 2726e25 | 4,330 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.e1ae0ef | 2026-08-06 | e1ae0ef | 4,281 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 (4330 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
madarauchiha-314/the-loop · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jvfjn3zq6ybojdr3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1413fec0a5a87c84885662da1e10252e611a07a22e6a5e1b99c2e2147904b54a
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