cold-read
Skill22 starsChanged 8 days agoNo licenceView on GitHub
Reads a draft issue, pull request, bug report, commit message, or review comment as a busy, fresh-context reader persona and reports whether that reader can make their next decision from the first few lines. Use when invoking /cold-read, before posting any agent-written artifact to a human audience, or when measuring how quickly past artifacts let a triager, code owner, or reviewer decide. Don't use for reviewing code diffs (use pr-review), triaging existing review comments (use pr-triage), or copy-editing prose style.
6 other projects use a version of this.
Adopted by
Most recently taken up by
- Thakay/agent-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- FiredMosquito831/my-writing-companiontheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- Ovich/charrettetheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- me2resh/cold-readtheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- Ovich/swarmstormtheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- scottlivingston/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
Other versions6 projects use a version of this.
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Edited · 0
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Wrote their own version · 6
- Ovich/charrette★ 14same name
- Ovich/swarmstorm★ 14same name
- FiredMosquito831/my-writing-companion★ 2same name
- scottlivingston/claude-skills★ 1same name
- me2resh/cold-read★ 0same name
- Thakay/agent-skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 5 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
No licence file, so all rights are reserved — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 5 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Your trail
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