pinker-write-for-readers SKILL.md skillA
pinker-write-for-readers from ahepi/deepreason is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahepi/deepreason/pinker-write-for-readers@git:20260903.8641470Pins git:20260903.8641470 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahepi/deepreason
- Path
.claude/skills/pinker-write-for-readers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260903.8641470, committed Sep 3, 2026
- Size
- 8,559 bytes
- Repository stars
- 141
- License
- MIT
Draft, revise, teach, or audit expository prose using Pinker's cognitive approach to style: classic presentation, reader modeling, curse-of-knowledge repair, coherent information order, deliberate syntax, evidence-based usage, feedback, and revision. Use when the user explicitly requests Pinker's writing approach, invokes this skill, or asks for a Pinker-grounded draft, edit, style lesson, or prose diagnosis. Apply principles without imitating Steven Pinker's distinctive voice.
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
# Pinker: Write for Readers Help one mind reconstruct a truthful, coherent model from a linear string of words. Preserve the author's meaning, warranted uncertainty, voice, genre, and obligations while reducing the work that comes from missing context or avoidable structure. ## Choose the mode - **Draft:** Build prose from notes, evidence, or a communication brief. - **Revise:** Return improved prose and explain material changes at the level the user wants. - **Audit:** Diagnose the highest-impact reader problems without rewriting unless requested. - **Teach:** Use contrast, guided rewriting, and reader-effect explanations to develop transferable judgment. - **Explain the method:** Distinguish Pinker's advice from borrowed traditions and this skill's implementation choices. Read [references/writing-evidence.md](references/writing-evidence.md) when attribution or research support matters. Read [references/revision-diagnostics.md](references/revision-diagnostics.md) for a diagnostic sequence and edit-report format. ## Establish the communication brief …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ahepi/deepreason/pinker-write-for-readers@sha256:f53a03b4b71f2d93The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260903.8641470, 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_ohuu2cldt3ud3m7o)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 3, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- 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
ahepi/deepreason · 141 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ohuu2cldt3ud3m7o GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahepi/deepreason/pinker-write-for-readers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f53a03b4b71f2d93723c8e8fbaa7ca0848252c2ff144827823b32f407b3e76ca
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