tell-them-something-new skillA
tell-them-something-new is agent-read markdown (skill) from kalyvask/winning-writing: Cuts opening sentences that recap what the recipient already knows about themselves, their company, or their own work. Implements Konrad's rule 2 ("begin with something they don't know — tell me a secret about the future") and Kramon's rule 4. Use when a draft opens with flattery, a summary of the reader's accomplishments, restating their stated thesis, or reciting biographical facts they already have. Triggers on "they already know," "rewrite the opener," "stop with the flattery," "first senten.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/tell-them-something-new@git:20260514.1bb6baamdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/tell-them-something-new@sha256:a1dc65639ff6cb00Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_roolxos3gdbj4sue)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260514.1bb6baa latest | 2026-05-14 | 1bb6baa | 7,984 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.46dad60 | 2026-05-14 | 46dad60 | 7,982 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.9e426ac | 2026-05-06 | 9e426ac | 7,980 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260430.99ac43d | 2026-04-30 | 99ac43d | 7,965 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 (7984 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
kalyvask/winning-writing · 15 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_roolxos3gdbj4sue GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/tell-them-something-new GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a1dc65639ff6cb00b0929cee6acf8a82e2b9c8b96b959ce48126f35fd1625fea
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