war-of-art-pressfield SKILL.md skillA
war-of-art-pressfield from simbajigege/book2skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield@git:20260430.ba4df11Pins git:20260430.ba4df11 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- simbajigege/book2skills
- Path
skills/war-of-art-pressfield/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260430.ba4df11, committed Apr 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 26, 2026
- Size
- 8,888 bytes
- Repository stars
- 202
- License
- MIT
Apply Steven Pressfield resistance diagnosis for procrastination, turning.
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
# The War of Art — Creative Resistance Skill **Knowledge source:** *The War of Art* by Steven Pressfield. ## Overview Use this skill to diagnose creative resistance, procrastination, avoidance, self-sabotage, amateur habits, and dependence on external validation. It helps writers, artists, founders, and anyone pursuing difficult long-term work shift from avoidance to professional daily action. ## When to Use This Skill Use this skill when the user asks: - "Why can't I start?" - "I keep procrastinating on my creative work." - "How do I turn pro?" - "Am I blocked by fear or laziness?" - "How do I stop needing external validation?" - "Give me a daily discipline plan." ## Core Principle Resistance is an internal force that opposes meaningful upward work. It cannot be reasoned away; it is beaten by turning pro: showing up daily, acting despite fear, accepting no excuses, and working from one's territory rather than hierarchy. ## Workflow Inventory | Workflow | User question pattern | Inputs | Steps | Output | Independent trigger? | Distinct references? | Triage score | Should be subskill? | Reason | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|---| …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield@sha256:a5a9962bc7b4b306The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260430.ba4df11, 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_zkomiopwikma4rpb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 26, 2026 and Apr 30, 2026, about one every 35 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260430.ba4df11 latest | 2026-04-30 | ba4df11 | 8,888 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260326.a0df705 | 2026-03-26 | a0df705 | 14,396 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 (8888 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
simbajigege/book2skills · 202 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-08-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zkomiopwikma4rpb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a5a9962bc7b4b3060cf6d324f8910979871c395b9ea223b7b4b886fdba12e1ab
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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.