{"api_version":"1","slug":"minto-pyramid-39701656","url":"https://skillsoutpost.com/agents/minto-pyramid-39701656","item_type":"skill","category":"content","runs_in":["chat_app","local_agent"],"os":null,"needs_network":null,"needs_accounts":null,"reads_files":null,"writes_files":null,"sends_data":null,"access":"github","access_type":"github","at_a_glance":{"runs_in":["chat_app","local_agent"],"os":null,"needs_network":null,"needs_accounts":null,"reads_files":null,"writes_files":null,"sends_data":null,"access_type":"github","tool_type":"skill","delivery":"github","interface_type":"other","untrusted_creator_content":{"purpose":"An Agent Skill for writing and restructuring documents in the Pyramid Principle: answer first, then grouped reasons, then evidence.","needs_runtime":null,"version":"Latest on the main branch","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. 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The README says each operation includes an instruction to invent nothing.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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. 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The README says the skill declines incident timelines, runbooks, tutorials and anything where chronology is the content. The README reports that its restraint behavior, offering instead of rewriting and declining documents it should not touch, holds on Opus, Sonnet, GPT-5 and Gemini. It says the behavior does not hold on Haiku, which restructured an incident timeline into a postmortem template, invented figures and, on one run, matched a different installed skill. The README advises using a frontier model, or checking the output when you do not. It says one comparison run with the skill sharpened a fact beyond what the source said, which is why it now writes \"invent nothing\" into every operation. It expects the gain to be smallest on a short email in a frontier model that was already going to lead with the ask. The repository can change at any time; check its README before you install.","data_handling":"The README does not describe data handling. What is sent where depends on your coding agent and model provider.","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. 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