Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing a skill (its SKILL.md, description or reference files), when modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, or when reviewing an agent-facing document that behaves inconsistently across runs. Prose that people read, such as a memo or a one-pager, follows its own rules.
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.
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# Writing for agents
Reference for writing any document an agent consumes: a skill, an `AGENTS.md` / `CLAUDE.md`, a doc reached by a pointer. The packaging differs; the writing does not: the same levers make each one predictable, since the agent takes the same _process_ every run rather than producing the same output.
When the document you're writing is a skill, read [`SKILL-MECHANICS.md`](SKILL-MECHANICS.md) for frontmatter, invocation choice, and router skills. Credit and license: `LICENSE.md` in this folder.
When you add or reword a discipline rule (one an agent under pressure would explain away), read [`PRESSURE-TESTS.md`](PRESSURE-TESTS.md) and watch the rule go red, then green, in a fresh subagent before it ships.
## Context pointers
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.6e97839, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ncqfkmdxlnramg5m
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ehnruiz/claude-skills/writing-for-agents
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/abfdcb3a8eb251b19aec359fd9724d5737e60ff369e37c626201f20c025f361d
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ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/confluence-jira-links/SKILL.md · Link a Confluence page and the Jira tickets it is about, both ways, without duplicates - each ticket shown on the page…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/diagnosing-bugs/SKILL.md · A disciplined loop for hard bugs, flaky tests and performance regressions - build a red-capable feedback loop first…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/epic-review/SKILL.md · Review a Jira epic (or the Jira Product Discovery idea it implements) against its own In Scope list - which items are…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/explain-the-number/SKILL.md · Like-for-like before a measured number is reported or credited to a change. Use before saying a change moved a score, a…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/grilling/SKILL.md · Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea until every branch of it is settled. Use when the user…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/handoff/SKILL.md · Write a handoff note so a fresh session can continue this one's work. Use when the user says to hand off, wrap up, or…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/leader-1-1-prep/SKILL.md · Build a prep brief for a recurring 1:1 with a skip-level or senior leader. Pulls the last meeting's notes, the tickets…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/llm-integration/SKILL.md · Checklist for code that calls a language model or exposes a system to one. Use when writing or reviewing code that…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/no-ai-attribution/SKILL.md · Keep AI-assistant credit lines out of anything published on the user's behalf. Use before writing a commit message…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/open-in-my-browser/SKILL.md · Open a link the user shares in their own Chrome through the Claude in Chrome extension, where their sign-ins and VPN…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/pick-up/SKILL.md · Continue work from a handoff note an earlier session wrote. Use when the user says to pick up, continue or carry on…
ehnruiz/claude-skills · skills/plain-writing/SKILL.md · Draft text a person will send or post under their own name, in plain language that does not read as machine-written…
kunolu/640-skills · sbtd-workflow-onboard/assets/external-skills/stable/skills/writing-for-agents/SKILL.md · Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
qshanx/docs-governance · skills/documentation/writing-for-agents/SKILL.md · Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
timharris707/skills · skills/author/writing-for-agents/SKILL.md · Write and prune documents an agent consumes: a SKILL.md, an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, a rules file, a reference file…
timharris707/skills · plugins/clickai-codex/skills/author/writing-for-agents/SKILL.md · For skills, standing agent instructions, recorded rules, or documents agents skip, write and prune reliable triggers…
vodailocz/kilo-kit-mcp · skills/productivity/writing-for-agents/SKILL.md · Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
j-star-films-studios/vibecode-protocol-suite · assets/.agent/skills/agent-engineering/writing-for-agents/SKILL.md · Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
mambo-wang/codewiki-plus · .codebuddy/skills/writing-for-agents/SKILL.md · Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
