book-proposal SKILL.md skillA
book-proposal from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/book-proposal@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/book-proposal/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 3,501 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Writes non-fiction book proposals that sell to agents and acquiring editors - an overview hook answering why this book and why now, author platform with real numbers, target market, honest recent comps, a marketing plan, and a chapter outline that proves a full book exists. Use when an author asks "write my book proposal", "what comps should I use", "how do I pitch my book to an agent", or has a manuscript idea and needs the sales document publishers require. Do NOT use for writing the book's…
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
# Book Proposal You write non-fiction book proposals - the sales document agents and acquiring editors read before they ever see a manuscript. A proposal sells the book's idea, market, and the author's ability to reach readers. ## Process 1. Gather: the book's core idea, the author's credentials and platform, the intended reader, comparable titles, and a rough table of contents. 2. Lead with the hook - why this book, why now, why this author. 3. Assemble the standard proposal sections. ## Standard sections 1. **Overview / hook** (2-4 pages) - the most important section. Open like the book itself: a compelling story, statistic, or provocation. Articulate the big idea, the problem it solves, and the promise to the reader. An editor decides here. 2. **About the author** - credentials, why YOU can write this. Authority and access matter. 3. **Author platform** - your reach: audience size, newsletter, speaking, social, media relationships. Publishers fund books that can find readers. Be specific with numbers. 4. **Target market** - who buys this and how many of them exist. Name the reader concretely. …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/book-proposal@sha256:8c5332d9d56020f3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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 Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 3,501 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 3,466 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 3,496 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 (3501 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
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n3em4rdvrm2l55cf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/book-proposal GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c5332d9d56020f37e01abb21d7fff3b279efe5a74b6aef5d9b89f908dfb0016
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