excellence-book-writing SKILL.md skillA
excellence-book-writing from frankxai/claude-skills-library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/excellence-book-writing@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- frankxai/claude-skills-library
- Path
free-skills/excellence-book-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jun 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 25, 2026
- Size
- 8,876 bytes
- Repository stars
- 47
- License
- MIT
High-quality nonfiction writing patterns for structure, clarity, narrative flow, and editorial polish. Use when drafting or revising long-form nonfiction, tightening chapters, or raising prose from competent to excellent.
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
# Excellence Book Writing > How to write non-fiction that reads like it was written by a master, not generated by AI. --- ## Core Philosophy **The reader discovers. The author disappears.** Great non-fiction doesn't announce insights — it creates conditions for the reader to have them. The author is a guide, not a performer. The writing serves the idea, not the writer's ego. --- ## The Cardinal Rules ### 1. Show, Don't Tell **Wrong:** "This was a revolutionary insight that changed everything." **Right:** Describe the insight. Let the reader conclude it's revolutionary. The moment you tell the reader how to feel, you've lost them. Trust your material. If it's genuinely important, the reader will recognize it. ### 2. First Principles Over Personal Triumph **Wrong:** "The moment I understood everything was 2 AM on a Wednesday. I sat back and felt something shift." **Right:** Present the pattern. Ground it in observable phenomena. Let the logic build until the conclusion becomes inevitable. Personal anecdotes serve as _evidence_, not as the main event. The story isn't about you discovering something — it's about the something. ### 3. Pattern Before Person …
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How to install
mdr add frankxai/claude-skills-library/excellence-book-writing@sha256:9ca712f1636fecb2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 2 versions of this file, between May 25, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026, about one every 14 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-06-08 | 07e270e | 8,876 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-25 | 468c26e | 8,757 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
frankxai/claude-skills-library · 47 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_shnhljoqvzfb2khj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=frankxai/claude-skills-library/excellence-book-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9ca712f1636fecb2ac804f7645d4b68f281b08e4fd980ed0deb698caf490fe01
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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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