strategic-reading SKILL.md skillA
strategic-reading from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/strategic-reading@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- garrytan/gbrain
- Path
skills/strategic-reading/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 2, 2026
- Size
- 7,466 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31,587
- License
- MIT
Read a book, article, transcript, or case study through the lens of a specific strategic problem you're facing. Produces an applied playbook that maps the source onto the problem and gives short/medium/long-term recommendations. NOT for general book summaries.
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
# strategic-reading — Applied Analysis from Source Texts > **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for > citation rules (every recommendation cites the source) and back-link > enforcement. > > **Convention:** see [_brain-filing-rules.md](../_brain-filing-rules.md) — > output files by primary subject (concepts/ for general strategy, projects/ > for problem-tied playbooks). ## What this is Take a large text PLUS a specific strategic problem, produce analysis that maps the text's insights onto the problem. This is not book summarization. This is reading with a mission. Where `book-mirror` personalizes a book to the reader's whole life, `strategic-reading` personalizes it to ONE current problem. Same shape (extract → analyze → mirror), different lens. **Canonical example:** a power-dynamics history book read against a specific gatekeeper-vs-incumbent fight, producing a tactical analysis that maps the book's playbook onto the situation with counter-tactics and a short/medium/long-term playbook. ## Inputs 1. **Source text** — book (EPUB/PDF), article, transcript, historical case study, any large document. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/strategic-reading@sha256:ab2cd3adc7928937The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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_wk3qenghnsnpgd2f)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 2, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 52 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-07 | 590bb9a | 7,466 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-04 | 739e5cc | 7,465 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-05-20 | 772253e | 7,002 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-05-02 | c2ae4db | 6,679 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 (7466 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
garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wk3qenghnsnpgd2f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/strategic-reading GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ab2cd3adc79289374cfbc5cb3d5ee17f962fd8f7f3c997a1da708da0ed67797c
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.