yourself-story SKILL.md skillA
yourself-story from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story@git:20260522.bafc1e5Pins git:20260522.bafc1e5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
skills/yourself-story/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260522.bafc1e5, committed May 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 14, 2026
- Size
- 14,057 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Drafts and critiques bios, LinkedIn About sections, intro slides, "tell me about yourself" interview answers, and personal-essay openers using Adam Bryant's 500-CEO research and Lauren Weinstein's warmth+competence frame. Different from pitch-coach (which is product-shaped) and cold-email-coach (which is recipient-shaped). This skill is for the format where you ARE the subject. Use when writing a bio for a website, a LinkedIn About paragraph, the first slide of a deck about yourself, the…
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
# Yourself story Source: Adam Bryant's *Corner Office* column (NYT) interviews with 500+ CEOs on what they look for in candidates, plus Lauren Weinstein's GSB research on the two-axis model of social judgment, plus a set of model bios taught in Glenn Kramon's *Winning Writing* class. ## The goal Bryant's rule for any "about you" piece: > *"Make the CEO want to have a beer with you — and hire you."* The two halves of the sentence are not the same thing. *Beer* is warmth; *hire* is competence. A bio that nails one and misses the other fails. Aim for ~50/50 word-count split between the two. ## The two-axis bar (Weinstein / Fiske) Weinstein's GSB research, building on Susan Fiske's Princeton work on social judgment: **two qualities account for more than 90% of the first impression you form of a person.** - **Warmth** — the ability to create an authentic connection and create trust - **Competence** — the ability to inspire confidence in you A first impression made in roughly one second sticks. The bio is the first impression you control. Score high on both axes or don't ship. ## The 10 rules (Bryant + Kramon + Roizen + Weinstein) ### 1. Know your audience …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story@sha256:efde31aa4342abffThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.bafc1e5, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and May 22, 2026, about one every 3 days.
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| git:20260522.bafc1e5 latest | 2026-05-22 | bafc1e5 | 14,057 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.07a18a0 | 2026-05-14 | 07a18a0 | 14,014 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.f5e2df1 | 2026-05-14 | f5e2df1 | 12,123 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.d63cd2f | 2026-05-14 | d63cd2f | 12,067 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 (14057 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
kalyvask/winning-writing · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wl23g552nkjgekaa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/yourself-story GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/efde31aa4342abff1b48a4afe66501642425b71e3c46bb712671b4921ef43360
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