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minto-pyramid
An Agent Skill for writing and restructuring documents in the Pyramid Principle: answer first, then grouped reasons, then evidence.
At a glance
- Purpose
- An Agent Skill for writing and restructuring documents in the Pyramid Principle: answer first, then grouped reasons, then evidence.
- Runs in
- Chat app with skills, Local agent with shell
- Operating systems
- Not stated
- Needs
- Runtime: Not stated; Needs internet: Not stated; Needs accounts or API keys beyond your agent: Not stated
- Files and data
- Reads files: Not stated; Writes files: Not stated; Sends data to other services: Not stated
- Tool type
- Skill
- Delivery
- From GitHub
- Version
- Latest on the main branch
- Access
- Code on GitHub
- Compatibility
- According to the README, it works in Claude Code, Claude Desktop and anything else that reads Agent Skills. It shows install commands for a Bash-style shell and for Windows PowerShell, and says to restart your session afterwards. For models, it reports that the restraint behavior holds on Opus, Sonnet, GPT-5 and Gemini, and says it does not hold on Haiku.
- External costs
- The repository is MIT-licensed and states no pricing. Your coding agent or model provider may charge for usage.
- Permissions
- The skill acts through your coding agent with the access you give it. The README shows cloning or copying SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills/minto-pyramid, with a matching Windows user-profile path, and gives an alternative of asking the agent to install from the repository address. The README describes the skill as one file without dependencies. The README says it offers a rewrite and waits unless the user explicitly requests the skill or asks the agent to write the document. The README does not describe additional file, shell or network access by the skill.
- Usage terms
- MIT License, as stated in the repository. See its LICENSE file for the exact terms.
Code on GitHub
millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill
MITAgent Skill: make Claude write in Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle - answer first, grouped reasons, evidence under each.
Topics: agent-skills business-writing claude-code claude-skills communication executive-communication minto pyramid-principle
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View on GitHub ↗What it does
minto-pyramid is an Agent Skill for writing and restructuring decision documents. The README says it instructs a coding agent to put the answer first, followed by reasons and evidence, and apply Minto's grouping rules. The README says each operation includes an instruction to invent nothing.The README says the skill offers a rewrite and waits when it loads on a shared draft, except when the user explicitly requests the skill or asks the agent to write the document. The README says it declines documents such as timelines, runbooks and thank-you notes when their structure does not suit a decision document.
The README names restructure, buried-lede test, reason audit, so-what pass and email version as operations. The README says users can request an operation by name or supply a draft for restructuring. The repository's top level includes SKILL.md, README.md, LICENSE and evals/.
Who it is for
People who use a coding agent to write or restructure decision documents, such as recommendation emails.Example tasks
Use the minto-pyramid skill on a draft you shared.Restructure a draft so the conclusion comes first.
Run the buried-lede test on a draft.
Run a reason audit on a recommendation.
Ask for the email version of a document.