branding SKILL.md skillA

branding from nateslabach/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nateslabach/skills/branding@git:20260929.8a870a5

Pins git:20260929.8a870a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nateslabach/skills
Path
skills/branding/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260929.8a870a5, committed Sep 29, 2026
Size
2,600 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Builds personal brand assets using Seth Godin's frameworks: signature symbol, slogan, surprise (Purple Cow), salient idea, and signature story. Use when named (branding), or when the user asks for a brand symbol, slogan, tagline, Purple Cow, counterintuitive angle, core idea, brand story, or personal brand positioning.

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

# branding

Personal brand workshop. Five Godin-based prompts. Load only what the query needs.

## How to run

1. **Infer the step** from the user's ask (table below).
2. **Read that prompt file** and follow it exactly: ask the intake questions, wait, then execute steps, rules, and output shape.
3. If the ask is ambiguous or spans the whole brand system, ask which step they want (or whether to run more than one). Do not dump all five.
4. If they already answered intake questions earlier in the chat, reuse them. Do not re-ask unless something material is missing.
5. Carry forward prior outputs when chaining (e.g. salient idea → slogan). Do not invent a prior asset they never locked.

## Route map

| User signals | Load |
|---|---|
| symbol, icon, mark, visual identity, mid-scroll, logo-like mark | [prompts/signature-symbol.md](prompts/signature-symbol.md) |
| slogan, tagline, catchphrase, "what people repeat" | [prompts/signature-slogan.md](prompts/signature-slogan.md) |
| surprise, Purple Cow, counterintuitive, contrarian truth, scroll-stop idea | [prompts/signature-surprise.md](prompts/signature-surprise.md) |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nateslabach/skills/branding@sha256:73654d98111aad37

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.8a870a5, 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_zgw44pnvumihjimq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_zgw44pnvumihjimq)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 29, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260929.8a870a5 latest2026-09-29 8a870a5 2,600 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 (2600 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

nateslabach/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zgw44pnvumihjimq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nateslabach/skills/branding
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73654d98111aad37186148a599a563c3d3546b837a477d7aa3af73d003714265

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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