thought-leadership-writer SKILL.md skillA
thought-leadership-writer from qa-aman/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/thought-leadership-writer@git:20260808.7dfb5c7Pins git:20260808.7dfb5c7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- qa-aman/claude-skills
- Path
skills/by-role/marketing/thought-leadership-writer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260808.7dfb5c7, committed Aug 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 4, 2026
- Size
- 19,857 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Write long-form thought leadership articles, opinion pieces, industry POV essays, and CEO/founder bylines using the Made to Stick SUCCESs framework (Chip and Dan Heath). Use when the user asks for a long-form article, executive byline, opinion piece, industry POV, manifesto, "explain our point of view on X", or wants to publish an authority-building piece (1200-2500 words). Reads brand voice and positioning from knowledge/. For a short-form post, see linkedin-post. For the newsletter, see…
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
# thought-leadership-writer Writes long-form opinion pieces that establish authority and get shared. Uses the **Made to Stick SUCCESs framework** (Chip & Dan Heath, *Made to Stick*) to ensure every piece is memorable, not just well-written. **The core insight from Made to Stick:** Ideas fail to stick not because they're wrong, but because they're abstract, predictable, and forgettable. The SUCCESs framework systematically fixes this. A thought leadership piece that checks all 6 conditions will be remembered, quoted, and shared. One that checks none will be read once and forgotten. ## The SUCCESs Framework Apply all 6 conditions to every piece. Each one is a checklist item, not optional. | Letter | Condition | The test | How to apply | |---|---|---|---| | **S** | Simple | Can you express the core idea in one sentence? | Find the lead - the single most important insight. Strip everything that doesn't serve it. | | **U** | Unexpected | Does the piece break a pattern the reader expected? | Open by violating an assumption. Say the thing the reader didn't see coming. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/thought-leadership-writer@sha256:f4839c7ce2fbc725The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260808.7dfb5c7, 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_vmggd3ojno2aopk6)
1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 4, 2026 and Aug 8, 2026, about one every 96 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260808.7dfb5c7 latest | 2026-08-08 | 7dfb5c7 | 19,857 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260504.0d54b6b | 2026-05-04 | 0d54b6b | 11,001 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 (19857 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
qa-aman/claude-skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vmggd3ojno2aopk6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qa-aman/claude-skills/thought-leadership-writer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f4839c7ce2fbc7257aadb408e069972e5acca7d1c4c9301653b62d0ef772fbca
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.