speech-coach SKILL.md skillA
speech-coach from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/speech-coach@git:20260801.8f5e790Pins git:20260801.8f5e790 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
skills/speech-coach/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260801.8f5e790, committed Aug 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 24, 2026
- Size
- 9,666 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Drafts and critiques speeches, talks, keynotes, lightning talks, demo-day pitches, all-hands updates, conference presentations, wedding toasts, and any spoken-delivery piece using Glenn Kramon's 12 wowing-the-crowd rules from Stanford GSB's Winning Writing. Use when the user is preparing a talk, presentation, keynote, panel opener, board presentation, all-hands, town hall, demo-day pitch, toast, eulogy, commencement address, or any piece that will be delivered aloud. Triggers on phrases like…
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
# Speech coach Source: `points/speech-rules.md` (the 12 rules + the order-of-operations drafting flow + the Sparkline), `points/delivery-rules.md` (the three Vs, derailers, Q&A structures — for Mode 3 coaching), `points/kramon-master.md` (rhythm, jargon, warmth), `points/banned-jargon.md` (especially for spoken delivery — every banned phrase hits even harder when read aloud). ## What this skill does Given a topic + audience (or an existing draft), produce a talk shaped for the **ear**, not the page. The most common bad-talk failure mode is a memo read aloud — this skill catches that on sight and rebuilds the piece in spoken form. ## The philosophy in one line A speech is **not an essay**. The reader of an essay can reread a sentence; the listener of a speech cannot. So the closing line matters more than the opening, the main thought must be repeated, and every sentence has to parse on first hearing. ## Mode 1 — Draft from scratch If the user gives you a topic + audience, walk through Kramon's drafting order **before writing a single body paragraph**: …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/speech-coach@sha256:7b03ad9581a4c9e3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260801.8f5e790, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 24, 2026 and Aug 1, 2026, about one every 70 days.
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| git:20260801.8f5e790 latest | 2026-08-01 | 8f5e790 | 9,666 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260524.5bb6ce8 | 2026-05-24 | 5bb6ce8 | 8,710 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l6empjlwrggqw2vi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/speech-coach GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7b03ad9581a4c9e377d0258d7c8af66f901b160a0e872fa503c043e6caf6a822
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