theory-of-mind SKILL.md skillA
theory-of-mind from giladbarnea/soft-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add giladbarnea/soft-skills/theory-of-mind@git:20261005.ec1c6a4Pins git:20261005.ec1c6a4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- giladbarnea/soft-skills
- Path
plugins/soft-skills/skills/theory-of-mind/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261005.ec1c6a4, committed Oct 5, 2026
- Size
- 3,236 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Explains how to restore common ground with readers whose context differs from yours because of absence or memory decay.
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
# Theory of Mind: Writing Under Asymmetric Common Ground The theory behind any writing addressed to a reader whose context has diverged from yours. ## The phenomenon While you work, you build a private layer of understanding on top of the last shared baseline: discoveries, discarded hypotheses, new abstractions, locally invented terminology, revised mental models. Your language becomes saturated with that layer. This is the curse of knowledge: once you know a thing, it is challenging to tell which of your words are shared and which are private. The words feel plain to you precisely because you are the one who charged them with meaning. You need to overcome this challenge. Think of a shift change at Mission Control or in an intensive-care unit. The outgoing operator has lived inside the situation for eight hours. The incoming operator walks in cold. "Here is what I concluded" is dangerous, because the outgoing operator's words are saturated with context the incoming person never acquired. ## Two ways the asymmetry arises 1. **Absence.** The reader was not there while you built the layer. Everything after the divergence point is private to you. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add giladbarnea/soft-skills/theory-of-mind@sha256:dbcd612e0adb882eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.ec1c6a4, 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_rzb4ackxkjpaek7j)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 5, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No script tag
Source
giladbarnea/soft-skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rzb4ackxkjpaek7j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=giladbarnea/soft-skills/theory-of-mind GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dbcd612e0adb882e7e23a844c2ae2288fd18e2cd9eeaa2feae9c6cf59cb0496e
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.