Minto Pyramid
Restructures writing into Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle — conclusion first, then grouped reasons, then evidence — and audits an existing draft's logic against Minto's rules. Use when the user is writing, or has drafted, something that asks a reader to accept a judgment or make a decision: a recommendation, proposal, exec summary, memo, review with a verdict, or status update with an ask; or when a draft buries its point or narrates the process instead of the finding. Not for incident timelines, runbooks, tutorials, notes, or writing where chronology is the content.
Install
npx skills add millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill --skill minto-pyramidgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill.git /tmp/minto-pyramid-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/minto-pyramid-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/minto-pyramidPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Minto Pyramid **Three rules that override everything below this line:** 1. **If the user did not ask you to change the document, do not change it.** Say what you noticed in two sentences and ask. 2. **If it is a timeline, runbook, tutorial, or note, do not impose this structure on it.** Formatting they explicitly asked for is fine; hoisting a conclusion above the sequence is not. 3. **Never add a fact, figure, section or "lesson" the source does not contain** — including arithmetic you performed on the source's numbers. ## Step 0 — Gate. Do this before anything else. **Question 1: Does this document ask its reader to accept a judgment or make a decision?** Yes for recommendations, proposals, verdicts, analyses with a conclusion, updates carrying an ask. No for timelines, runbooks, procedures, tutorials, notes, descriptions, thanks, apologies, and anything whose value is the sequence of events. **No → say so in one line and stop.** Do not restructure it. > "This isn't a pyramid case — it's an incident timeline, and time order is the right order here. Want me to tighten it as-is instead?" **Question 2: Did the user ask you to change it?** If they named the skill, asked for a restructure, or asked you to **write** the document — apply it now. No preamble, no asking. Otherwise — they shared **their own** draft to look at, or it came up sideways — your entire response is **two sentences**:
Details
- Skill name
minto-pyramid- Repository
- millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 16 August 2026
FAQ
What does the Minto Pyramid skill do?
Restructures writing into Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle — conclusion first, then grouped reasons, then evidence — and audits an existing draft's logic against Minto's rules. Use when the user is writing, or has drafted, something that asks a reader to accept a judgment or make a decision: a recommendation, proposal, exec summary, memo, review with a verdict, or status update with an ask; or when a draft buries its point or narrates the process instead of the finding. Not for incident timelines, runbooks, tutorials, notes, or writing where chronology is the content.
How do I install the Minto Pyramid skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill --skill minto-pyramid. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Minto Pyramid popular?
It lives in millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill, which has 89 GitHub stars and 9 forks.
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