winning-writing SKILL.md skillA
winning-writing 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/winning-writing@git:20260528.67d18b2Pins git:20260528.67d18b2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
catalog/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260528.67d18b2, committed May 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 8,093 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Mode-aware writing critic. Distilled from Rachel Konrad's Stanford GSB "Winning Writing" course (spring 2026), the 10 rules of cold outreach, Heidi Roizen's mailing rules, and live class critiques. Loads a rule catalog (rules/catalog.json) and a mode definition (rules/modes.json) at invocation. Use whenever drafting or critiquing a cold email, outreach message, LinkedIn intro, exec memo, personal essay, bio, README, or LinkedIn post. Pass a mode argument to filter which rules apply.
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
# Winning Writing — mode-aware Source: Rachel Konrad's GSB guest lectures, Heidi Roizen's rules, 25 model letters, live student critiques. Rule library is in `rules/catalog.json`; mode definitions in `rules/modes.json`. Full playbook in `references/cold_outreach_playbook.md`. ## Invocation ``` /winning-writing <mode> "paste draft here" ``` Where `<mode>` is one of: `cold-email`, `memo`, `essay`, `profile`, `readme`, `linkedin-post`, or `default`. If no mode is given, defaults to `default` (every rule in the catalog fires). The mode arg filters the catalog to rules tagged with that mode, applies any per-mode severity overrides from `modes.json`, and applies the mode's target-length check if one is set. ## What this skill does on every invocation 1. **Read `rules/modes.json`** to get the active mode's definition (label, description, target length, severity overrides). 2. **Read `rules/catalog.json`** and filter to rules whose `modes` array includes the active mode (or the active mode is `default`). 3. **Apply per-mode severity overrides** to the filtered rules. …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/winning-writing@sha256:cd3f8b333bc55d87The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260528.67d18b2, 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 3 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and May 28, 2026, about one every 3 days.
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| git:20260528.67d18b2 latest | 2026-05-28 | 67d18b2 | 8,093 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.bafc1e5 | 2026-05-22 | bafc1e5 | 6,712 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.ec6c548 | 2026-05-22 | ec6c548 | 6,654 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8093 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
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Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
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