excellence-book-writing SKILL.md skillC

excellence-book-writing from frankxai/agentic-creator-os is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add frankxai/agentic-creator-os/excellence-book-writing@git:20260124.0bc6f23

Pins git:20260124.0bc6f23 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
C, 14 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
frankxai/agentic-creator-os
Path
.claude/skills/excellence-book-writing/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260124.0bc6f23, committed Jan 24, 2026
Size
8,587 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
Apache-2.0

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.

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## 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
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add frankxai/agentic-creator-os/excellence-book-writing@sha256:4c12422cfa4c2a1f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260124.0bc6f23, 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

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jan 24, 2026.

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Audit of the latest version

C  14 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: Frontmatter block present
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a name
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8587 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

frankxai/agentic-creator-os · 12 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tfmxkhovynmjerca
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=frankxai/agentic-creator-os/excellence-book-writing
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4c12422cfa4c2a1f35881362be8778755a86a4fd734a5f477217581e542116e7

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