r-cli SKILL.md skillA
r-cli from posit-dev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add posit-dev/skills/r-cli@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- posit-dev/skills
- Path
r-lib/r-cli/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Oct 6, 2026
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- 11,215 bytes
- Repository stars
- 556
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive R package for command-line interface styling, semantic messaging, and user communication. Use this skill when working with R code that needs to: (1) Format console output with inline markup and colors, (2) Display errors, warnings, or messages with cli_abort/cli_warn/cli_inform, (3) Show progress indicators for long-running operations, (4) Create semantic CLI elements (headers, lists, alerts, code blocks), (5) Apply themes and customize output styling, (6) Handle pluralization in…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# CLI for R Packages
## When to Use What
task: Display error with context and formatting
use: `cli_abort()` with inline markup and bullet lists
task: Show warning with formatting
use: `cli_warn()` with inline markup
task: Display informative message
use: `cli_inform()` with inline markup
task: Show progress for counted operations
use: `cli_progress_bar()` with total count
task: Show simple progress steps
use: `cli_progress_step()` with status messages
task: Format code or function names
use: `{.code ...}` or `{.fn package::function}`
task: Format file paths
use: `{.file path/to/file}`
task: Format package names
use: `{.pkg packagename}`
task: Format variable names
use: `{.var variable_name}`
task: Format values
use: `{.val value}`
task: Handle singular/plural text
use: `{?s}` or `{?y/ies}` with pluralization
task: Create headers
use: `cli_h1()`, `cli_h2()`, `cli_h3()`
task: Create alerts
use: `cli_alert_success()`, `cli_alert_danger()`, `cli_alert_warning()`, `cli_alert_info()`
task: Create lists
use: `cli_ul()`, `cli_ol()`, `cli_dl()` with `cli_li()`
## Inline Markup Essentials
Use inline markup with `{.class content}` syntax to format text:
```r
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How to install
mdr add posit-dev/skills/r-cli@sha256:f9dfd60df5cd5b12The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 6, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11215 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
posit-dev/skills · 556 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
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