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storytelling from transitive-bullshit/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/storytelling@git:20260929.b5b926b

Pins git:20260929.b5b926b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: transitive-bullshit/skills
Path: skills/storytelling/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260929.b5b926b, committed Sep 29, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 24, 2026
Size: 5,254 bytes
Repository stars: 4
License: MIT

Create and critique marketing narratives, product or project pitches, and personal stories. Use for story structure, hooks, emotional stakes, and memorable endings.

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

# Storytelling

A story is emotional packaging for a message: events let an audience experience why something matters. Use it to earn attention, make the message memorable, and help people care enough to act.

## Find the spine

Stories work best when they have a clearly defined audience, medium, core message, desired feeling, next action, and are grounded in facts. Optimize for relevant attention, trust, and that call to action. Ask only for missing information that changes the story; for personal narratives, seek a real turning point.

Distill a one-sentence **logline** to guide drafting or critique; show it when useful. Identify whose experience carries it, what they want, what gets in the way, and what changes. A short marketing story may use an audience's familiar situation instead of a named character.

For public-facing copy, make the core claim repeatable in one accurate sentence: what changed and why it matters.

Use supplied events, outcomes, quotes, and metrics. Label invented examples or missing facts as such; keep metaphors distinct from factual claims. Preserve the user's voice and the audience's level of knowledge.

## Useful frameworks
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/storytelling@sha256:336cc4a8b617c21a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.b5b926b, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_rthjovni62bq3hec.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rthjovni62bq3hec)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 5 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260929.b5b926b latest	2026-09-29	b5b926b	5,254 B	A	view · diff
git:20260924.a1c2fd1	2026-09-24	a1c2fd1	5,250 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5254 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

GitHub

transitive-bullshit/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rthjovni62bq3hec
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=transitive-bullshit/skills/storytelling
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/336cc4a8b617c21a2e6dcf2464ca921f1f48dc3f6a8ed89fc3782c9e31d7e393

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.

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