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title: "Tell Me a Joke · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Tell Me a Joke: a real runnable skill (the artifact is the example)."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/tell-me-a-joke"
last-updated: "2026-08-19"
---

# Tell Me a Joke · Agentic Atlas

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1. example of [Baseline Skill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill)
   Tell Me a Joke
   Hook
   a real runnable skill (the artifact *is* the example)
   Thesis
   Tell Me a Joke is a real, runnable skill whose entire body is one instruction, tell the user a short, clean joke; the artifact is the example.
   Laws & fences
  - The body is a single line and nothing else: no steps, no references, no state, so the skill contributes nothing beyond what the model already does when asked for a joke.
  - It is shipped as the artifact itself rather than described from outside, so what you read is exactly what an agent would load.
   When to reach
  - Reach for it when you want the smallest possible skill shape to hold your own skill against.
  - Skip it as something to ship for real; a one-line joke instruction earns nothing the model lacks.
   Provenance
   [tell-me-a-joke/artifact](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/tell-me-a-joke#artifact) · v1.0.2
   Addresses
   atlas_cards tell-me-a-joke
2. [
   Baseline Skill
   ](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill)

The card, in place · its connections drawn edges from atlas_links tell-me-a-joke

On this plate

[artifact](https://agentic-atlas.dev#artifact) [relationships](https://agentic-atlas.dev#relationships)

Every section is addressable on its own. Read only the ground you need.

## Artifact

[](https://agentic-atlas.dev#artifact)

artifact.md

Tell the user a short, clean joke.

The relationships ledger

Evidence-bearing references

## Relationships

Every connection keeps the section where it was found. The map above orients; this ledger carries the evidence.

### Outbound references 0

1. No outbound references.

### Inbound references 1

1. in-slice · occurrence 1
   [Baseline Skill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill#evidence)
   a real runnable skill (the artifact *is* the example)
   Evidence: [Evidence](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill#evidence) · occurrence 1

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Node tell-me-a-joke · corpus 31de4cb · Catalog revision 35263c4c415da742953d0462804fb14424e2244dae4c63efd27e468988de70ab