Clearer arguments
Minto
Find the point. Build the argument.
Turn a draft or idea into an argument the reader can follow: a clear question, a direct answer, and supporting ideas that actually justify it.
mintoA collection by Yusuf Goolamabbas
Structure an argument, examine a news story, improve AGENTS.md, or build an educational website. Choose a skill, install its folder, and ask for it in plain language.
Skills
Each skill stands on its own. Start with the problem you recognize, not the whole collection.
Clearer arguments
Find the point. Build the argument.
Turn a draft or idea into an argument the reader can follow: a clear question, a direct answer, and supporting ideas that actually justify it.
mintoEvidence & incentives
Look beyond the headline.
Examine a public story by asking who benefits, what actually changed, and what may happen next. Xray helps distinguish a persuasive narrative from the evidence supporting it.
xrayBetter agent instructions
Keep the rules that help.
Create, audit, or prune AGENTS.md instructions that help an agent make recurring decisions in a project. The aim is useful project guidance that stays concise enough to apply consistently.
agents-md-authorEducational websites
Make your repository easier to understand.
Turn repository content into an educational website that helps readers understand its value, see how it works, and take a useful next step.
github-pages-guideMinto in practice
An illustrative edit, not a recorded model result. The facts below belong to this fictional scenario.
We have discussed rebuilding the help centre. The support team answered 40 questions about password resets last week. A full rebuild would take six weeks. We could update the password-reset guide in two days. I think we should start there and see whether it helps.
Update the password-reset guide before committing to a full help-centre rebuild. The support team answered 40 password-reset questions last week, making this a concrete issue to address. The guide update would take two days; a full rebuild would take six weeks. Track password-reset questions after the update to assess whether it helps before deciding on the larger project.
The recommendation comes first, followed by the observed problem, the effort comparison, and the next decision. The revision preserves the uncertainty: it proposes checking the result rather than promising fewer support questions.
Get started
skills/ and choose one folder: minto, xray, agents-md-author, or github-pages-guide.SKILL.md, the license, and any references/ or agents/ subfolders together. Back up an existing copy before replacing it.Your application must support folder-based agent skills. Its documentation determines the installation location and reload procedure; these vary by application. The collection itself needs no additional runtime packages.
The README in each folder is the human guide; SKILL.md contains the agent instructions. Downloading SKILL.md alone is not a complete installation.
Once installed, ask in plain language.
Ask: Use the <skill> skill to …, replacing <skill> with its slug. Each guide has ready-to-copy prompts.