warmth-and-competence SKILL.md skillA
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warmth-and-competence from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
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- Latest version
- git:20260522.8896ed6, committed May 22, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Audits a draft on Susan Fiske's two-axis model of social judgment — warmth (do I like and trust this person?) and competence (do I respect this person?) — and rewrites the lines that signal the wrong thing on either axis. Implements Kramon's hardest rule: "show competence AND warmth in a single sentence." Use when a draft reads cold-but-impressive (high competence, low warmth — the "consultant trap"), warm-but-unserious (high warmth, low competence — the "intern trap"), or flat on both.…
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What the file says
# Warmth and competence
Source: `points/core-rules.md` rule 15 ("show competence AND warmth in a single sentence" — Kramon's hardest rule). Grounded in Susan Fiske's stereotype-content model from Princeton — humans evaluate every new face on two axes: warmth (intent — friend or foe?) and competence (capability — can they actually do it?).
## The premise
Cold writing reads as cold-but-impressive. Eager writing reads as warm-but-unserious. The hardest move in business writing is to score high on both axes in the same sentence — a sentence that proves you're capable AND that the recipient is going to like working with you.
The two failure modes are equally bad and unequally visible:
- **The consultant trap (high competence, low warmth):** you sound like the smartest person in the meeting, but the recipient instinctively doesn't want you on their team. Common in MBA-trained writers, ex-management-consultants, finance veterans.
- **The intern trap (high warmth, low competence):** you sound thoughtful and friendly, but the recipient instinctively doesn't trust you to ship. Common in early-career writers, recent grads, anyone overcorrecting from the consultant trap.
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/warmth-and-competence@sha256:f39a88d483960d38The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.8896ed6, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 22, 2026.
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Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
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