design-shotgun SKILL.md skillB

design-shotgun from garrytan/gstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add garrytan/gstack/design-shotgun@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
garrytan/gstack
Path
design-shotgun/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
22
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 10, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 27, 2026
Size
57,330 bytes
Repository stars
136,966
License
MIT

Design shotgun: generate multiple AI design variants, open a comparison board, collect structured feedback, and iterate. (gstack).

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

<!-- AUTO-GENERATED from SKILL.md.tmpl — do not edit directly -->
<!-- Regenerate: bun run gen:skill-docs -->

## When to invoke this skill

Standalone design exploration you can
run anytime. Use when: "explore designs", "show me options", "design variants",
"visual brainstorm", or "I don't like how this looks".
Proactively suggest when the user describes a UI feature but hasn't seen
what it could look like.

## Preamble (run first)

```bash
~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-skill-start --skill "design-shotgun" --model "claude"
```

Read the echoed `KEY: value` STATUS lines — they drive every preamble rule
below. **Degraded mode:** if `SKILL_START_PROTO: 1` is missing from the output
(script absent, stale install, or a different protocol number), apply safe
defaults: treat `SESSION_KIND` as `interactive`, do NOT assume Conductor,
skip onboarding/telemetry steps (their gates are marker-based, so consent and
onboarding prompts are DEFERRED to the next healthy run — never lost), tell
the user to run `./setup` or `/gstack-upgrade`, and proceed with their task.
Note `SESSION_ID` and `TEL_START` from the output — the Telemetry step needs
them at skill end.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add garrytan/gstack/design-shotgun@sha256:ce00e580218a7f6b

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_2tavimtyjm7ajnwe.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2tavimtyjm7ajnwe)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 22 versions of this file, between Aug 27, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-10-10 45a6783 57,330 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-10 5b9b837 57,335 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-08 8bb6d65 56,875 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-07 f67c478 56,871 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-06 28f1385 56,877 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-04 2db0b3a 55,183 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-04 4015c28 53,903 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-03 fe6d1ae 53,888 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-03 ac20ef1 51,721 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-03 74512c2 53,115 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-26 01593aa 52,502 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-24 730a101 52,392 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-24 06ed920 53,316 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-22 636175d 53,307 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-14 9f81911 53,028 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-09 c8f0c4e 53,155 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-06 0530392 52,922 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-01 0d1bd56 52,685 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-01 702a1a9 52,473 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-31 253d1df 52,416 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-29 07b59e3 51,273 BB view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-27 394db32 49,987 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (57330 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 script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

garrytan/gstack · 136,966 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2tavimtyjm7ajnwe
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gstack/design-shotgun
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ce00e580218a7f6b3dbcff99083ac1e178b5b5ab171a42525995fdfcbada6e77

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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