summarize-anything SKILL.md skillA
summarize-anything from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/summarize-anything@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
summarize-anything/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Sep 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 28, 2026
- Size
- 25,464 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Summarizes arbitrarily long text (1k-1M words) using recursive map-reduce with any LLM backend. Accepts raw text, markdown, transcripts, articles, codebases, or any plaintext input. Produces one or more output formats: executive summary, section headings with timestamps, YouTube description, Twitter/X posts, title options, thumbnail prompts, blog outlines, pull quotes, and more. Supports focus directives ("focus on the AI parts", "emphasize the business angle") to steer the summary. Pluggable…
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
# Summarize Anything Recursive map-reduce summarization for arbitrarily long text, with pluggable LLM backends and a wide variety of output formats. When the requested output is reader-facing prose or publishing copy for swyx, apply `swyx-writing` after the factual reduction step. Keep extractive summaries, quotations, timestamps, and structured data faithful to the source rather than rewriting them into a voice. ## Setup ### Required ```bash which curl || echo "curl is required (should be pre-installed on macOS)" which jq || brew install jq ``` ### LLM Backends (at least one required) ```bash # Local — no API key needed, runs on your machine # Install Ollama: https://ollama.com ollama pull llama3.1:8b # 4.7GB, 128k context ollama pull qwen2.5:32b # 18GB, 128k context (if you have RAM) # Cloud — set the relevant env var export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # GPT-4.1 (1M context, $2/M input) export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... # Claude Sonnet 4 (200k context) export GEMINI_API_KEY=... # Gemini 3.1 Pro (1M context, free tier available) export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-... # Any model via OpenRouter ``` ### Verify ```bash …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/summarize-anything@sha256:71efed454436b7f4The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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_pq6jaxhhdlobz2fc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Mar 28, 2026 and Sep 12, 2026, about one every 56 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0 latest | 2026-09-12 | 6ee419c | 25,464 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-25 | 35b20fb | 25,387 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-03-28 | 6c544a7 | 25,387 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-03-28 | a44ca32 | 25,387 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 (25464 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pq6jaxhhdlobz2fc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/summarize-anything GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/71efed454436b7f40b5dfdcbc4a395f35aad6e1280cbcf68523e3461c0477939
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