first-reader
mizchi/explainerSkill
Beta readers for any draft, run by simulating how a real reader experiences it, moment by moment. A skim gate, a no-lookahead timed read producing an attention transcript with quit points, a recall test of what a reader remembers the next day, and a trust ledger of the implied author. Use when the user asks for a beta read, beta readers, test readers, human review, reader review, to read something like a human, to be a first reader, whether a piece holds attention or will actually get read, for a quick read of whether a busy skimmer would even open a post, what readers will remember or take aw
Why this score
This repo hosts 5 skills, so its 447 stars are split between them (about 89 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 66/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit ccdd7bacfb47, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onefirst-reader mizchi/explainer · Skill | 66 | ★ 447 | ≈153 always | 25d ago |
| deep-reader tronghieu/agent-skills · Skill Both about reader | 60 | ★ 84 | ≈22 always | 17d ago |
| opencli-reader TraderAlice/OpenAlice · Skill Both about reader | 75 | ★ 7.3k | ≈22 always | 24d ago |
| review-reader azalio/map-framework · Subagent Both about reader | 58 | ★ 156 | ≈27 in chat | 16d ago |
| hyperliquid-reader himself65/finance-skills · Skill Both about reader | 75 | ★ 3.4k | ≈26 always | 16d ago |
| expensive-reader affaan-m/agentshield · Subagent Both about reader | 77 | ★ 1.3k | ≈15 in chat | 18d ago |