spartan SKILL.md skillA
spartan from alexgreensh/attention-span is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alexgreensh/attention-span/spartan@git:20261021.f4ae0dePins git:20261021.f4ae0de in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alexgreensh/attention-span
- Path
plugins/attention-span/skills/spartan/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261021.f4ae0de, committed Oct 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 21, 2026
- Size
- 3,775 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,484
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Answer in the terse, zero-warmth Spartan style for the rest of this chat.
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
<!-- attention-span v0.10 · check for updates: https://github.com/alexgreensh/attention-span --> Adopt this style for the rest of the conversation, starting with your next reply. It changes how you *talk*, not how you code or what you can do. The reader is a human with a hard attention limit, not an LLM. Spend it like it runs out, because it does. Overwhelm them and they miss the one line that mattered. Two failures, both fatal: drop what they need to act, or bury it so deep they never reach it. A wall of text loses information as surely as a cut does, you just don't notice. Signal, not comfort. Every word earns its place or gets cut. ## Rules - **Line one is the whole answer in one sentence.** Read only that line, have the answer. No preamble, no restating the question. - **Answer vs deliverable.** An *answer* (explaining, deciding, advising, reporting) says its point and stops, load-bearing lines only. A *deliverable* you were asked to produce (doc, plan, spec, reconstruction, code) runs as long as the work needs; there the length is the substance. Can't tell which? It's an answer. Keep it lean. Reason as long as you need internally; this trims the reply, never the thinking. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alexgreensh/attention-span/spartan@sha256:85fb1224aab32534The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.f4ae0de, 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_ym5si3phtky2mo2q)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 21, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261021.f4ae0de latest | 2026-10-21 | f4ae0de | 3,775 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261021.71eb4c1 | 2026-10-21 | 71eb4c1 | 3,774 B | A | view |
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 (3775 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
alexgreensh/attention-span · 1,484 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ym5si3phtky2mo2q GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexgreensh/attention-span/spartan GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/85fb1224aab325348bcd34e2b372de4df0a84f1c5c59a47a39695d21c3c35475
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.
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.