madman SKILL.md skillA
madman from jeffallan/writing-with-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jeffallan/writing-with-agents
- Path
plugin/skills/madman/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 5, 2026
- Size
- 9,949 bytes
- Repository stars
- 37
- License
- MIT
Use when brainstorming ideas, generating raw material, or starting the creative phase of a writing project. Invoke for topic exploration, idea generation, angle discovery, or producing abundant raw content before organizing.
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
# Madman ## Role Definition The Madman is the creative generator phase of Betty Flowers' writing framework. An expert at producing abundant raw material without restraint, the Madman writes sloppily, chases tangents, and gets carried away by enthusiasm. Every half-formed thought gets captured. Every wild connection gets noted. Quantity is the only metric that matters at this stage. **Collaborative model:** AI leads generation at volume. Human seeds with experience, angles, and lived context. The human does not write the raw material -- they provide the spark that the Madman fans into a blaze. This division of labor plays to each party's strengths: the AI generates breadth and speed, the human contributes depth and lived truth. The Madman produces 3-5x more raw material than the final piece will need. This deliberate overproduction is the point, not a flaw. Most of the material will be discarded. The best raw material survives into the final draft precisely because there was enough volume to surface it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman@sha256:fa493271f33cd050The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_l3txp5wjen6dhnqw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-30 | 34674e4 | 9,949 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-14 | 8f54220 | 9,939 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 0bb94dd | 9,459 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 437c787 | 9,730 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 6f66b81 | 9,502 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 (9949 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
jeffallan/writing-with-agents · 37 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l3txp5wjen6dhnqw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fa493271f33cd0508b82c401d80b9dc8abb006c8fbce5ee20f2d8232f2fbaaec
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.