submission SKILL.md skillA
submission from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/submission@git:20261014.4b8019dPins git:20261014.4b8019d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danjdewhurst/story-skills
- Path
skills/submission/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 16
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 17,668 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a query letter", "query", "querying", "pitch", "blurb", "back cover copy", "jacket copy", "comp titles", "comparable titles", "synopsis for agents", "submit to agents", "submission tracker", "self-publishing description", "retailer description", "ready to query", "submission readiness check", "submit a short story", "magazine submission", "short-fiction markets", "simultaneous submission", "reprint rights…
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
# Submission ## Overview Get a finished manuscript out the door. This skill checks submission readiness, drafts the submission package (query letter, pitch, synopsis, blurb, comp titles), builds the manuscript in submission format, and keeps a tracker of where the book has gone. Package files live under `submission/` in the story project. The author sends every submission themselves; this skill prepares materials and records outcomes. ## Prerequisites A story project with a complete or near-complete draft. Verify `story.md` exists in the project root and read its `status`, `genre`, `sub-genre`, `premise`, `author` (or `authors` for a co-written book), `contact`, and `language` fields. If `status` is not `complete` or `revising`, tell the user the package can be drafted now but the readiness check will fail until the draft is finished. ## Language And Market `language` (a missing field means `en`) is the book's language. Ask which market the user is submitting to. The query letter, Shunn manuscript format, comp conventions, and word-count norms in the references are the English-language (mainly US and UK) market's. Other markets have their …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/submission@sha256:7ab93a0aaa0df2d5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.4b8019d, 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_tvltzev6dghcvbuh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 16 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 17,668 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.a60920d | 2026-10-08 | a60920d | 17,527 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.cd9e862 | 2026-10-08 | cd9e862 | 17,527 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.b7447f8 | 2026-10-07 | b7447f8 | 17,193 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.b770f53 | 2026-10-07 | b770f53 | 17,273 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.c7d2b5d | 2026-10-07 | c7d2b5d | 17,113 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.882a13d | 2026-10-02 | 882a13d | 12,201 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.b1dfb8c | 2026-10-02 | b1dfb8c | 12,219 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.880a47b | 2026-10-02 | 880a47b | 11,835 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.2023e98 | 2026-09-27 | 2023e98 | 10,946 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.0ced653 | 2026-09-27 | 0ced653 | 10,338 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.39fac5f | 2026-09-27 | 39fac5f | 10,403 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.a42e274 | 2026-09-27 | a42e274 | 10,906 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.6875a6a | 2026-09-25 | 6875a6a | 9,718 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.640a5ad | 2026-09-24 | 640a5ad | 9,587 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.0b980a1 | 2026-09-22 | 0b980a1 | 8,742 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 (17668 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
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 395 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tvltzev6dghcvbuh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/submission GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7ab93a0aaa0df2d56489ea9ab474e3721f73d18ef14f0f4d52c3ea762ef5d5fc
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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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