writing-for-scannability SKILL.md skillA
writing-for-scannability from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/writing-for-scannability@git:20260529.568060fPins git:20260529.568060f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins
- Path
plugins/writing-tools/skills/writing-for-scannability/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260529.568060f, committed May 29, 2026
- Size
- 9,042 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Use when structuring prose so readers can skim it - drafting or restructuring READMEs, docs, PR or issue bodies, design docs, RFCs, or any long-form text where a wall of prose hides the structure. Also use when explicitly asked to make something scannable or skimmable, convert prose to a list, surface a buried list, fix a wall of text, or decide whether bullets or prose fit. Strong signal: text with parallel sentence shapes, contrast markers ("that's distinct from", "versus"), bolded terms…
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 for Scannability ## Overview Most people scan before they read. The job is to format prose so a scanner gets the gist and a committed reader gets the depth, without writing two versions. This is the structural axis of writing: when to surface a buried list, how to front-load for the eye, and how hard to lean on formatting per medium. It is a different axis from concision (keeping prose tight) and from voice (keeping it human). Concision will happily leave a list buried inside a sentence; this skill decides when to pull it out. Voice keeps the result from reading like a corporate slide deck. **Core principle:** if the prose is doing list work, let it be a list. If the prose is doing argument work, leave it. ## When to use Reach for this when: - A paragraph has parallel sentence shapes: *"X is A. Y is B."* or *"First... Second..."* - You hit a contrast marker: *"that's distinct from"*, *"as opposed to"*, *"versus"*, *"on the other hand"* - You have bolded terms each followed by a colon and a definition (a definition list hiding in prose) - Three or more parallel items pile up - A sentence carries an embedded series: *"create X, query Y, and delete Z"* …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/writing-for-scannability@sha256:015e53c83cdcf41bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260529.568060f, 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_xwwwmgdqlple7r5z)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 29, 2026.
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 (9042 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
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xwwwmgdqlple7r5z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/writing-for-scannability GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/015e53c83cdcf41b20d22f25387dd2e2ffb198a73fd60e351ea101102d2785d6
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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.