prose-style SKILL.md skillA
prose-style from avelikiy/great_cto is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/prose-style@git:20260801.1d20b70Pins git:20260801.1d20b70 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- avelikiy/great_cto
- Path
skills/prose-style/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260801.1d20b70, committed Aug 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,158 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
Reusable writing-style contract for agent outputs (reports, ARCH docs, verdicts, threat models). Forces direct prose with concrete evidence, no marketing voice, no hedge words. The single most-referenced skill across the pipeline — used by 28 agents.
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
# Prose style — writing contract for agent reports great_cto reports are read by busy CTOs at 3pm on a Tuesday. They scan for facts, decisions, and what needs their attention. Marketing voice and hedge words waste their time. ## Five rules ### 1. Lead with the conclusion Bad: > After reviewing the architecture document and considering various > trade-offs, including but not limited to scalability, security, and > maintainability, we believe that the proposed approach is generally > acceptable but has some areas that could potentially be improved. Good: > Approved with 2 changes required: (a) move PII encryption to KMS, (b) > add idempotency key on webhook handler. Details below. ### 2. Concrete evidence, not adjectives Bad: "Performance is acceptable." Good: "p99 latency 142ms over 50K requests (k6 run 2026-05-12 14:00 UTC, `tests/load/<your-scenario>.js`). SLO is 200ms." Bad: "Security looks good." Good: "No findings at Critical or High. 2 Medium: hardcoded log level in `src/logger.ts:14`, missing CORS header in `src/middleware/cors.ts:8`." ### 3. No hedge words Banned: *generally, somewhat, fairly, mostly, kind of, sort of, more or …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/prose-style@sha256:c53b8e5979984beaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260801.1d20b70, 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_lvslonwruxuwtier)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and Aug 1, 2026, about one every 39 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260801.1d20b70 latest | 2026-08-01 | 1d20b70 | 4,158 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260528.4d681c0 | 2026-05-28 | 4d681c0 | 4,146 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.ca9e7a0 | 2026-05-14 | ca9e7a0 | 4,134 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 (4158 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
avelikiy/great_cto · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lvslonwruxuwtier GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=avelikiy/great_cto/prose-style GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c53b8e5979984beaf62a0a849d38a9da4fc1dbe5b5996b69a9a1d81fba4c21b2
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.