monty-python-esque SKILL.md skillA
monty-python-esque from pantheon-org/tekhne is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/monty-python-esque@git:20260824.34ad58bPins git:20260824.34ad58b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pantheon-org/tekhne
- Path
skills/comedy/monty-python-esque/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260824.34ad58b, committed Aug 24, 2026
- Size
- 9,417 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Generate an original British surrealist comedy sketch, script, or comic bit in the Monty Python tradition, built on absurd literalism, escalating internally-consistent illogic, bureaucratic pedantry, semantic argument, deadpan seriousness amid impossible premises, sudden non sequiturs, abrupt anticlimactic endings. Use this when a user asks for a new sketch, script, dialogue bit, or scene built on a mundane premise pushed to logical extremes. Do NOT use this to reproduce, quote, paraphrase…
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What the file says
# Monty Python-esque Comedy
## Mindset
The comedy in this tradition is not randomness dressed up as "weird": it is absolute internal
consistency applied to an impossible premise. A sketch is funny because the characters treat the
absurd with the same procedural seriousness they'd give a tax return, and the escalation follows
rules the audience can half-predict a beat before the logic breaks something. If you remember one
thing: escalate the logic, don't escalate the randomness.
## When to Use
Only use this skill when the request is for new, original material built on an ordinary premise
pushed to absurd extremes, not for retrieving or lightly disguising existing content.
- The user asks for an original sketch, script, or short comic bit ("write me a sketch about...",
"give me a scene where...", "a bit involving...").
- The premise is ordinary (a council meeting, a customer complaint, a job interview, a queue), and
the user wants it pushed to absurd extremes through dialogue.
- The user wants dry, escalating, deadpan-toned comedy rather than punchline-driven one-liners.
- The user references Monty Python's style or tradition as a tone descriptor, not as a request to
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/monty-python-esque@sha256:80f8c6be4d9a95c7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260824.34ad58b, 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 Aug 24, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No script tag
Source
pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xhuyv75ekx5lpakc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pantheon-org/tekhne/monty-python-esque GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/80f8c6be4d9a95c71e5dcefbb03dd52696ab3b7013fff9403f5c18a5e0a55b54
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