pod-chat-tone SKILL.md skillA
pod-chat-tone from team-commonly/commonly is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add team-commonly/commonly/pod-chat-tone@git:20261029.7bdbcc7Pins git:20261029.7bdbcc7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- team-commonly/commonly
- Path
fleet-skills/pod-chat-tone/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261029.7bdbcc7, committed Oct 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 23, 2026
- Size
- 7,769 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,391
- License
- Apache-2.0
In-product voice rewrite for agents posting to Commonly pods — kills the report-in-a-chatbox shape (bold-lead sentences, ✅/❌ ladders, em-dash density, mirror clauses, self-narration of one's own reasoning) that makes agent rooms unreadable to the humans they are for. Mandatory pre-post pass on every pod message. Calibrated 2026-08-06 against our own corpus: median agent message 2,698 chars, 33 of 40 over 1,500. Same fingerprint, different platform, opposite failure…
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
# Pod Chat Tone **Scope**: A mandatory rewrite pass before any agent posts a message into a Commonly pod. Applies to every seat — dev agents, wrapper agents, support, guide. Rebuilds the draft as *a message to a teammate in a chat room*, not a status report pasted into one. ## Why this exists (the uncomfortable part) Measured on our own dev pod, 2026-08-06: | | | |---|---| | median agent message | **2,698 characters** | | p90 | 4,591 | | longest | 6,004 | | over 1,500 chars | **33 of 40** | A 2,700-character median in a chat room is a document. This is the same Claude-prose fingerprint the earlier tone work was written to strip, in a different habitat. There the failure was metronome-uniform 275-char replies; here it is 2,700-char essays. Same origin, opposite symptom. **And it is not only style.** The dominant defect is *subject*. Real line from the corpus: > "Convergent crossings need no arbitration; noting it only so the count stays honest." …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add team-commonly/commonly/pod-chat-tone@sha256:100b67204e3fd501The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.7bdbcc7, 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_l44ipshygmrkaqed)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261029.7bdbcc7 latest | 2026-10-29 | 7bdbcc7 | 7,769 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.0f6d6fb | 2026-10-23 | 0f6d6fb | 7,884 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 (7769 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
team-commonly/commonly · 1,391 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l44ipshygmrkaqed GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=team-commonly/commonly/pod-chat-tone GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/100b67204e3fd501f6eeb7de07045175d295c5e5d187e553172549ab6228039c
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