write-overlay SKILL.md skillA

write-overlay from thesampadilla/montaj is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add thesampadilla/montaj/write-overlay@git:20261015.a580dc5

Pins git:20261015.a580dc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
thesampadilla/montaj
Path
skills/write-overlay/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
14
Latest version
git:20261015.a580dc5, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 28, 2026
Size
41,998 bytes
Repository stars
27
License
MIT

Write a custom JSX overlay component and add it to the project's overlay track.

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

# Write Overlay

An overlay is a React component rendered frame-by-frame by Puppeteer, composited over the footage at a specific timestamp. All overlays are custom JSX — there are no built-in templates.

> See [MOTION.md](MOTION.md) for sandbox facts that matter once an overlay moves (SVG filters, the `duration` guard, beat math) and for how to verify motion by sampling.

---

## Execution context

Custom overlay JSX runs in a sandboxed evaluator. All identifiers below are injected as globals:

| Identifier | Type | Description |
|------------|------|-------------|
| `frame` | number | Current frame number (0 → duration-1). Drives all animation. |
| `fps` | number | Output frame rate |
| `duration` | number | Total frames this overlay is visible for |
| `props` | object | The `props` object from the project.json item |
| `interpolate` | function | Map a frame number to any output value |
| `spring` | function | Physics-based easing (0 → 1) |
| `springStep` | function | Closed-form spring from `from` to `to` starting at frame `at`. A pure function of `frame` (exact at fractional frames, no cache), so it stays correct under sub-frame motion blur. |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add thesampadilla/montaj/write-overlay@sha256:86da718f87edd648

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.a580dc5, 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 14 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every day.

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git:20261015.a580dc5 latest2026-10-15 a580dc5 41,998 BA view · diff
git:20261009.5f4b6b42026-10-09 5f4b6b4 39,702 BA view · diff
git:20261009.4d87e9e2026-10-09 4d87e9e 39,572 BA view · diff
git:20261009.5fe24e52026-10-09 5fe24e5 39,098 BA view · diff
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git:20261001.be8b2a12026-10-01 be8b2a1 38,916 BA view · diff
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git:20260929.ca383102026-09-29 ca38310 38,764 BA view · diff
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git:20260929.7a641ad2026-09-29 7a641ad 38,316 BA view · diff
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git:20260928.a3bc5872026-09-28 a3bc587 37,153 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (41998 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

GitHub

thesampadilla/montaj · 27 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3q5q7u3m2a7nssqq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thesampadilla/montaj/write-overlay
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/86da718f87edd648df3e871e8208fdbfa182e9371d4305e0d0d4eb298f1a4d1f

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