gutenberg SKILL.md skillA
gutenberg from magnus919/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/gutenberg@git:20260902.035e58dPins git:20260902.035e58d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- magnus919/agent-skills
- Path
gutenberg/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260902.035e58d, committed Sep 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 13, 2026
- Size
- 9,235 bytes
- Repository stars
- 166
- License
- MIT
Search, download, and extract public-domain books from Project Gutenberg. Look up books by ID or keyword via gutendex, download plain-text and EPUB editions, strip licensing boilerplate, extract clean text from EPUB for illustrated works, and classify fiction vs non-fiction. Ships a portable CLI script with zero external dependencies. Use when the user says "gutenberg", "public domain", "download a book", "classic literature", "free ebook", "gutenberg.org", or names any public-domain title or…
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
# Gutenberg — Public Domain Book Toolkit
Search, download, and extract clean text from [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org) — 70,000+ free public-domain ebooks. Ships a portable Python CLI with zero external dependencies.
## Quick Start
```bash
# Search for books
python3 scripts/gutenberg search "Moby Dick"
# Download by Gutenberg ID (plain text)
python3 scripts/gutenberg download 2701 --format txt
# Download EPUB (for illustrated books)
python3 scripts/gutenberg download 2701 --format epub
# Extract clean text (strips PG boilerplate)
python3 scripts/gutenberg extract 2701
# Classify fiction vs non-fiction
python3 scripts/gutenberg classify 2701
# Full pipeline: search → download → extract
python3 scripts/gutenberg pipeline "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
```
## How It Works
Project Gutenberg provides **70,000+ free public-domain ebooks** in multiple formats. The gutendex API (https://gutendex.com) offers a free, unauthenticated JSON catalog. No API key required — just curl or this CLI.
### Data Flow
```
User provides title/ID/author
↓
gutendex API search → pick book by ID
↓
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/gutenberg@sha256:a0e0189804856d6eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260902.035e58d, 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 Jun 13, 2026 and Sep 2, 2026, about one every 40 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260902.035e58d latest | 2026-09-02 | 035e58d | 9,235 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.a5f7e74 | 2026-07-11 | a5f7e74 | 9,145 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260613.b2cb7d9 | 2026-06-13 | b2cb7d9 | 9,166 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 (9235 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
magnus919/agent-skills · 166 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oijxqg6y4frl3shj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=magnus919/agent-skills/gutenberg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a0e0189804856d6ea7d4d0a8dd53a30abf9891f12a8034657d27774ff8aec2d9
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.