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writing from damianvtran/local-operator is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add damianvtran/local-operator/writing@git:20261010.ee06e2b

Pins git:20261010.ee06e2b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: damianvtran/local-operator
Path: local_operator/skills/builtin/writing/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261010.ee06e2b, committed Oct 10, 2026
Size: 2,515 bytes
Repository stars: 229
License: MIT

Writing that sounds human: strip AI tells (em dashes, filler, hype, tacked-on tricolons), plain language, active voice, reader-first structure. Use when drafting or editing copy, docs, posts, or messages.

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

# Writing

The reader's time is the budget. Every sentence must change what the reader knows or does, or it goes.

## AI tells to strip (scan for each)

- The em dash used as punctuation where a comma, colon, or full stop belongs.
- Filler openers: "It's important to note", "When it comes to", "It's worth mentioning".
- Hype adjectives: powerful, cutting-edge, world-class, effortless. Replace with the fact: a number, a capability, a limit.
- The "not just X, but Y" construction; the tacked-on tricolon ("fast, simple, and reliable") added for rhythm, not meaning.
- Journey, landscape, realm, delve, leverage, seamless, robust vocabulary.
- Hedge stacks: "might potentially be somewhat".
- Question hooks: "Ever wondered how ...?"
- Summary paragraphs that restate the introduction in new words.
- Uniform sentence lengths; every paragraph opening with a transition.

## Rewrite patterns

| Disease | Fix |
|---|---|
| Passive with the actor dropped ("the decision was made") | Name the actor ("the team decided") |
| Nominalisation ("performed an analysis of") | Verb ("analysed") |
| Stacked clauses in one sentence | Split at the second clause |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add damianvtran/local-operator/writing@sha256:b9518df0f4327774

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.ee06e2b, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_wmkfr5vdw7iigtks.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wmkfr5vdw7iigtks)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 10, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261010.ee06e2b latest	2026-10-10	ee06e2b	2,515 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2515 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

GitHub

damianvtran/local-operator · 229 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wmkfr5vdw7iigtks
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=damianvtran/local-operator/writing
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b9518df0f4327774d4f14a425d606ad32aa7da9826e259b2a135dec525d00bf5

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.

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