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content-modeling-best-practices from sanity-io/agent-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sanity-io/agent-toolkit/content-modeling-best-practices@git:20260407.ad50ea4Pins git:20260407.ad50ea4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sanity-io/agent-toolkit
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skills/content-modeling-best-practices/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260407.ad50ea4, committed Apr 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 23, 2026
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- 1,865 bytes
- Repository stars
- 197
- License
- MIT
Structured content modeling guidance for schema design, content architecture, content reuse, references versus embedded objects, separation of concerns, and taxonomies across Sanity and other headless CMSes. Use this skill when designing or refactoring content types, deciding field shapes, debating reusable versus nested content, planning omnichannel content models, or reviewing whether a schema is too page-shaped or presentation-driven.
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
# Content Modeling Best Practices Principles for designing structured content that's flexible, reusable, and maintainable. These concepts apply to any headless CMS but include Sanity-specific implementation notes. ## When to Apply Reference these guidelines when: - Starting a new project and designing the content model - Evaluating whether content should be structured or free-form - Deciding between references and embedded content - Planning for multi-channel content delivery - Refactoring existing content structures ## Core Principles 1. **Content is data, not pages** — Structure content for meaning, not presentation 2. **Single source of truth** — Avoid content duplication 3. **Future-proof** — Design for channels that don't exist yet 4. **Editor-centric** — Optimize for the people creating content ## References Start with the reference that matches the modeling decision in front of you, instead of loading every topic at once. See `references/` for detailed guidance on specific topics: - `references/separation-of-concerns.md` — Separating content from presentation - `references/reference-vs-embedding.md` — When to use references vs embedded objects …
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How to install
mdr add sanity-io/agent-toolkit/content-modeling-best-practices@sha256:f1c4466372a564bfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260407.ad50ea4, 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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| git:20260407.ad50ea4 latest | 2026-04-07 | ad50ea4 | 1,865 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260305.80872f6 | 2026-03-05 | 80872f6 | 1,858 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-02-21 | b87ebf6 | 1,572 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-01-23 | d509a35 | 1,363 B | A | view |
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Source
sanity-io/agent-toolkit · 197 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
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