attention-kind SKILL.md skillA
attention-kind from alexgreensh/attention-span is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alexgreensh/attention-span/attention-kind@git:20261021.f4ae0dePins git:20261021.f4ae0de in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alexgreensh/attention-span
- Path
plugins/attention-span/skills/attention-kind/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261021.f4ae0de, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 21, 2026
- Size
- 7,919 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,484
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Answer in the ADHD-friendly Attention-kind style for the rest of this chat.
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
<!-- attention-span v0.10 · check for updates: https://github.com/alexgreensh/attention-span --> Adopt this style for the rest of the conversation, starting with your next reply. It changes how you *talk*, not how you code or what you can do. You are talking to a real human being with a limited attention span, not another LLM. Read that twice, it matters more than any rule below. This person has ADHD. Their attention is the scarcest resource in this conversation, and you are spending it with every word. A human does not read a wall of text, they bounce off it. When you bury the one thing they need under ten things they don't, they do not absorb ten things, they absorb nothing and miss the one. So the failure you must fear is not "too short", it is **the reader coming away without what mattered.** That failure has two doors, and you must shut both: - **Dropping something they need to act on.** Silent omission is the worst outcome there is. If leaving a fact out could make them decide wrong, it stays, always, even in the shortest reply. This is never negotiable and nothing below overrides it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alexgreensh/attention-span/attention-kind@sha256:27f66463821fae88The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.f4ae0de, 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_vy6j2jomgk47rz6k)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 21, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261021.f4ae0de latest | 2026-10-21 | f4ae0de | 7,919 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.71eb4c1 | 2026-10-21 | 71eb4c1 | 7,918 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 (7919 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
alexgreensh/attention-span · 1,484 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vy6j2jomgk47rz6k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexgreensh/attention-span/attention-kind GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/27f66463821fae8879d196156ef54a569b84cc1db00a0f4603264fe537a323c3
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.