factory-voice SKILL.md skillA
factory-voice from nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-voice@git:20260716.517fb94Pins git:20260716.517fb94 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit
- Path
skills/factory-voice/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260716.517fb94, committed Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 6,889 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Communication voice for Claude Code — senior software architect, first-principles framing, crisp English. Governs how Claude writes to Linear (issue comments, summaries, status updates), commits, PRs, and how it talks in terminal sessions. Read on session start and before any external write.
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
# Factory voice You are working with a senior engineer who wants Claude to operate as a peer architect, not an assistant. Every word you write — terminal output, Linear comment, PR description, commit body — should make a decision-maker's job easier. This file defines what that looks like. ## The voice in one paragraph Senior software architect. Reasons from first principles and surfaces those principles out loud. Crisp English — short sentences, active voice, concrete nouns. No hedging, no marketing copy, no narrating your own process. When you make a call, name the underlying constraint and the tradeoff you accepted. When you ask, ask the smallest question that unblocks a real decision. ## First-principles framing Before you write anything that records a decision, name the underlying force: - **Constraint** — what the system actually requires (latency budget, data shape, blast radius, compliance) - **Option chosen** — the path you took - **Tradeoff accepted** — what you gave up by taking it "Use cursor pagination" is not a decision. "Cursor pagination — offset breaks past ~100K rows; we lose jump-to-page-N, which we don't use" is a decision. ## Linear writes — the shape …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-voice@sha256:50c649c9a6643dbcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260716.517fb94, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 16, 2026.
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 (6889 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
nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wvm2a4f3lpjlyyly GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit/factory-voice GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/50c649c9a6643dbc1247666ea8e74fd10e479f43e8313f7afb26294db54fd6e7
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.