conducting-literature-dialogue SKILL.md skillA
conducting-literature-dialogue from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/conducting-literature-dialogue@v2.1.0Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers
- Path
skills/conducting-literature-dialogue/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 10,721 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Use when a humanities researcher needs to transform verified sources into a structured scholarly conversation rather than a chronological list of summaries.
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
# Conducting a Literature Dialogue ## Purpose Organize sources around agreements, disagreements, methods, blind spots, and unresolved questions so that the literature review becomes an argument about a scholarly conversation. The skill supports positioning; it does not simulate reading sources that have not been supplied or verified. ## Contract **Accepts** - A bounded research question and scope. - `SourceRecord` entries, bibliographic records, notes, excerpts, or verified summaries. - Optional concept-lineage records and provisional claims. **Requires** - At least two usable sources for comparison. - Clear provenance for each source description. - Enough source content to identify a claim, method, object, or limitation. **Produces** - A literature-dialogue map organized by problem or position. - Source-role assignments. - Agreement, disagreement, and unresolved-question records. - A bounded gap statement or a declaration that no gap has yet been established. - A literature gate report. **May produce** - A search-needs list. - Competing maps based on method, chronology, concept, or disciplinary tradition. - A recommendation to postpone originality claims. **Fails when** …
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How to install
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/conducting-literature-dialogue@sha256:a5bfed33afc557beThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 29 days.
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| v2.1.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | 1bc2e1c | 10,721 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-08-21 | 5d72da4 | 10,721 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-19 | 262e1c6 | 9,217 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10721 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xttarcbvfql7swzv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/conducting-literature-dialogue GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a5bfed33afc557bee8f8b9723350a8f5b09a8a89f8a9ad72d68c2147b161945a
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