beat-writer SKILL.md skillA
beat-writer from travsteward/openwriter is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add travsteward/openwriter/beat-writer@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- travsteward/openwriter
- Path
skills/beat-writer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 10, 2026
- Size
- 7,230 bytes
- Repository stars
- 36
- License
- MIT
Channel-agnostic writer for any piece of content that doesn't yet belong to a specific channel. Use when you have something to say but don't know where it goes — could become a blog post, X thread, newsletter section, web copy, journal entry, or just stay as a plain doc. Runs the beat extraction + shaping discipline, pours prose via /authors-voice (with the operator's default anchor — personal voice), polishes, and leaves a clean draft in OpenWriter. The draft can later be refactored into…
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
# Beat Writer Channel-agnostic, beats-first writer for uncommitted drafts. Owns extraction + shaping; delegates prose to `/authors-voice` (operator's default anchor — personal voice). Output is a plain OpenWriter doc that can stay generic OR get refactored later into a specific channel via a channel-master writer. **4-layer model:** 1. **EXTRACT** — pull beats out of the operator. Same query-first, 5-pass discipline used by `/book-writer`. Channel-agnostic CATEGORY tags (CLAIM / REFRAME / MECHANISM / EVIDENCE / STORY / APHORISM / PIVOT / OBJECTION). `docs/extraction.md` 2. **SHAPE** — order beats by reader flow, lock as commitments (no content prescription). No channel template — just a sequenced beats list. `docs/beat-method.md` 3. **VOICE** — `/authors-voice` Apply Protocol with the operator's DEFAULT anchor (personal voice). Same machinery as every other writer; no anchor swap. The piece sounds like the operator. 4. **POLISH** — `/polish` to 90/100, then `/anti-ai`, then a naive-reader pass (`/congruence` if installed, otherwise inline). Delegated, not duplicated. ## Firm rules …
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How to install
mdr add travsteward/openwriter/beat-writer@sha256:1cd83b16a6b59e4dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 10, 2026.
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Source
travsteward/openwriter · 36 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qja7t36pto3fz5hy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=travsteward/openwriter/beat-writer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1cd83b16a6b59e4d29019335d4940a16d1aac835d49625ef1e5a864c35c52f42
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