pulp-fiction-writing SKILL.md skillA
pulp-fiction-writing from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/pulp-fiction-writing@git:20260811.ebf45e9Pins git:20260811.ebf45e9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
pulp-fiction-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260811.ebf45e9, committed Aug 11, 2026
- Size
- 7,417 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Write or revise fast-moving, voice-forward serialized pulp fiction with strong hooks, clear character dynamics, escalating complications, compact chapters, and bingeable momentum. Use when drafting genre fiction, outlining a serial, tightening pacing, improving dialogue, designing chapter cliffhangers, or revising prose for readability and reader retention.
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
# Pulp Fiction Writing Use this skill to make a story difficult to put down without making it shallow. Favor clarity, velocity, emotional legibility, and consequential turns over ornamental prose. ## Core contract - Open with a person wanting something now. - Put pressure on that want within the first scene. - Make every scene change the situation, the relationship, or the reader's understanding. - Keep the prose transparent enough that the reader never loses the action. - End chapters with a changed question, a difficult choice, a reveal, or a new problem. - Prefer specific, concrete details over generalized description. ## Build the story engine Define these before drafting: - **Promise:** What recurring pleasure does the story deliver? Examples: advancement, danger, romance, rivalry, mystery, transformation, or social maneuvering. - **Protagonist drive:** What does the protagonist want, and what will they risk to get it? - **Pressure source:** Who or what makes the goal difficult? - **Escalation ladder:** What becomes harder, costlier, more public, or more personal at each stage? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/pulp-fiction-writing@sha256:c23b570a698812e6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260811.ebf45e9, 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_uv6elqdi6l2x52rd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 11, 2026.
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 (7417 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uv6elqdi6l2x52rd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/pulp-fiction-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c23b570a698812e6d525e60b614935bdc497c86a81c171db3312fc01d95e74d1
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.