pick-a-lane skillA
pick-a-lane is agent-read markdown (skill) from kalyvask/winning-writing: Diagnoses drafts that tell three half-stories instead of one full story, and rewrites them around the single strongest narrative thread. Implements Konrad's rule 7 and Adam Bryant's "stay in your lane" advice — distinct from compression (which cuts words) because pick-a-lane cuts whole stories. Use when a bio, cold email, op-ed, or pitch reads as a resume regurgitation, when the writer is dumping multiple accomplishments instead of telling one fully, or when a paragraph keeps turning corners. Tr.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/pick-a-lane@git:20260522.bafc1e5mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/pick-a-lane@sha256:f19fc7626f891ee1Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_zzb2cnwsneignudc)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260522.bafc1e5 latest | 2026-05-22 | bafc1e5 | 8,956 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.f5e2df1 | 2026-05-14 | f5e2df1 | 8,932 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.d63cd2f | 2026-05-14 | d63cd2f | 9,761 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 (8956 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
kalyvask/winning-writing · 15 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zzb2cnwsneignudc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/pick-a-lane GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f19fc7626f891ee18c7eb5a9415af72e3c3894a9fa1cec327a16468b01cfdbd4
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