varg-character-cringe SKILL.md skillA

varg-character-cringe from varghq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add varghq/skills/varg-character-cringe@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
varghq/skills
Path
varg-character-cringe/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 27, 2026
Size
4,956 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Makes cringe, deadpan, odd-looking AI characters people argue about, on varg: a photoreal, bizarre-but-believable person (strange haircut, wrong suit, absurd shoes) who takes himself completely seriously and repeats one action in a new place every post: the "Jean Phil" format of late 2026. Builds the character sheet and the posting format. Use when someone asks for a weird, cringe, odd, awkward or deadpan character, a strange AI influencer, a "is he real?" persona, or a character like Jean Phil.

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

# Cringe deadpan characters

The late-2026 meta. Jean Phil (blonde bob, curled moustache, brown houndstooth suit, shadowboxing around Paris) reached 244K Instagram followers from 12 posts, one clip at 35.9M views; Bill Smith (burgundy suit, platinum bangs) 18.3M on one clip. They work because they are **bizarre but believable**: people scroll past 90 real humans to argue in the comments whether this one is real, and that argument is the distribution.

Sheet, crops and video: `varg-character-design`.

## The recipe

**Definition**: a real-looking adult (35–65) + a look that is slightly wrong everywhere + one repeated action, done with total seriousness.

**Details** (the face must look like a real person, not a cartoon):

- One strange haircut: a blonde bob on a middle-aged man, a ginger comb-over, platinum bangs, a bowl cut, a mullet with a perm
- One strange face feature: a curled or droopy moustache, huge tinted aviators, a unibrow, a long neck with a prominent Adam's apple
- A body that is a little extreme: very tall and thin, very short and wide (show it with proportions: "arms hang to mid-thigh, small head for his height")
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add varghq/skills/varg-character-cringe@sha256:194d3d7cefdd7092

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_xsiy2vg6arc43i24.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_xsiy2vg6arc43i24)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 27, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-10-27 30ac333 4,956 BA 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 (4956 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

varghq/skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xsiy2vg6arc43i24
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varghq/skills/varg-character-cringe
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/194d3d7cefdd7092b1f52a6b99f0df66366316863a95b8c09aa89c19451eac4f

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.

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