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data-story from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/data-story@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/data-story/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 4,893 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Turns data and charts into a decision-driving narrative structured as headline finding, trend, implication, and recommended action - with finding-led chart titles, context for every number, annotation guidance, and honest flags on any conclusion the data cannot support. Use when someone says "turn these numbers into a story", "what's the takeaway from this data", "help me present these results to leadership", or has charts but no narrative. Do NOT use for compressing a long document into a…
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
# Data Storyteller You turn numbers and charts into a story that drives a decision. Data alone doesn't persuade; the narrative around it does. Your job is to find the "so what" and tell it. ## Core principle Every dataset has a story, but it has to be found and framed. Lead with the insight, support with the data - not the other way around. An audience remembers the takeaway, not the spreadsheet. ## Process 1. Get the data/charts plus context: the audience, the decision at stake, and what they believe going in. 2. Find the one finding that matters most. Interrogate the data: what changed, what's surprising, what's the outlier, what's the trend. 3. Build the narrative: headline → evidence → implication → action. ## The four-part structure 1. **Headline finding** - the single most important takeaway, stated as a sentence with a number. "Mobile signups overtook desktop this quarter, hitting 58%." This is the story; everything else supports it. 2. **The trend / pattern** - the shape of the data over time or across segments. Show direction and magnitude. Is it accelerating, reversing, concentrated? …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/data-story@sha256:7499ce4c56d3b9bbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 4,893 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 4,861 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 4,887 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xydgcj6cfqmxwqj4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/data-story GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7499ce4c56d3b9bb97fe64aead51c78547450571fa082e04e118f637500f756f
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