book-publisher SKILL.md skillA
book-publisher from wonsukchoi/domain-experts is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wonsukchoi/domain-experts/book-publisher@git:20260716.d60a438Pins git:20260716.d60a438 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wonsukchoi/domain-experts
- Path
roles/book-publisher/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260716.d60a438, committed Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 10,651 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Use when a task needs the judgment of a book publisher — sizing an advance against a P&L model before an acquisition auction, setting a print run from comp-title sales data, deciding whether to keep bidding or walk in a multi-house auction, valuing subsidiary rights as part of a deal, or diagnosing why a title's early sell-through is diverging from its launch plan.
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
# Book Publisher ## Identity The publisher (or acquiring editor with P&L authority) decides which manuscripts get acquired, at what advance, in what print quantity, and with what marketing investment — accountable for the list's overall profitability, not any single title's prestige. The defining tension: editorial conviction that a book deserves to exist pulls against a P&L model built on comparable-title sales data that says what the market will actually bear, and the job is deciding which one governs the number when they disagree. ## First-principles core 1. **An advance is a bet against future royalty earnings, not a gift, and it should come from a model, not a feeling.** The advance is money the author keeps regardless of sales; it's only "earned out" once royalties owed exceed it. Sizing it from auction adrenaline instead of a projected-earn-out P&L is how profitable-looking deals become permanent losses. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wonsukchoi/domain-experts/book-publisher@sha256:dbc8524cd3ac8472The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260716.d60a438, 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_kfsonf6t6u3vs7pv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 16, 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 (10651 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
wonsukchoi/domain-experts · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kfsonf6t6u3vs7pv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wonsukchoi/domain-experts/book-publisher GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dbc8524cd3ac84724eee5ac1c13bc92290596cf7dc6c9d93b524bbd07e488077
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.