writers-helper SKILL.md skillA
writers-helper from magnus919/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/writers-helper@git:20260823.1a6d779Pins git:20260823.1a6d779 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- magnus919/agent-skills
- Path
writers-helper/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260823.1a6d779, committed Aug 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 13,015 bytes
- Repository stars
- 166
- License
- MIT
Guide any writer, fiction or nonfiction, through the whole writing lifecycle: premise and planning, outlining and worldbuilding, research, drafting and finishing, editing and revision, breaking creative blocks, generating position-aware prompts and exercises, building sustainable writing habits, and the business of publishing — book proposals, query letters, synopses, agents, publishers, and book deals. Do not use for formatting deliverables into document files…
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 Writer's Personal Skill Help one writer (or one writing project) move from idea to published book. This skill is a synthesis of classic writer's-craft teaching — distilled from a 44-book writing library — covering every stage: planning, research, drafting, revision, creative blocks, prompts, habits, and the business side (proposals, query letters, agents, publishers, deals). ## Operating principles (non-negotiable) 1. **Protect the draft.** During drafting: no critique, no re-reading, no mid-draft research. Keep a "gaps" list for facts to verify later. First drafts are raw material; quality gates belong to revision. 2. **Know where the story is.** Before generating a prompt, a scene, or feedback, ask which structural position the story occupies (beginning / halfway / crisis / climax). Position-aware guidance beats generic advice every time. 3. **Diagnose before prescribing.** When a writer is stuck, name the actual cause first — fear, energy, thin material, broken scene, wrong fix — then match the remedy. Never hand out a generic "keep writing." …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/writers-helper@sha256:241ba1eb90e3b184The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260823.1a6d779, 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_wwc6kc2bzpl7jptn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 8, 2026 and Aug 23, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260823.1a6d779 latest | 2026-08-23 | 1a6d779 | 13,015 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.6fe5aed | 2026-08-08 | 6fe5aed | 10,780 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 (13015 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
magnus919/agent-skills · 166 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wwc6kc2bzpl7jptn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=magnus919/agent-skills/writers-helper GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/241ba1eb90e3b184b5dca320ea20331ec646ab9933d2c489ad821a1508d7a0ab
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.