better-ui SKILL.md skillA

better-ui from vanducng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vanducng/skills/better-ui@v1.0.1

Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vanducng/skills
Path
skills/better-ui/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
v1.0.1, committed Oct 7, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 4, 2026
Size
8,069 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Applies exact UI polish values: concentric border radius, optical alignment, layered surface shadows, neutral image outlines, a 0.96 press scale, icon cross-fades, and theme-switch transition suppression. Activates when editing component CSS or Tailwind, when an interface looks slightly off, or when the user says 'polish the UI', 'better UI', 'concentric radius', 'optical alignment', 'shadow instead of border', or 'icon transition'. Do not use for design-system choice, accessibility audits, or…

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

# UI polish

> Exact values for the small details that make an interface feel finished. Ported from `jakubkrehel/skills` `better-ui` (MIT). Use the numbers written here.

When reviewing, slow the interface down. What feels off at 10% speed is what is subtly wrong at full speed.

Keep the project's component library, tokens, and density, and match its motion language except where a rule below prescribes an exact interaction.

Every duration, curve, scale, and blur below is a specific value, not a range to approximate. `cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1)` is not `cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)`, and `0.96` is not `0.95`. Use what is written.

Text wrapping, font rendering, tabular numbers, spacing, breakpoints, hit areas, focus, keyboard support, ARIA, and reduced motion belong to `vd:uiuxdesign`. Whether a motion should exist, which easing family to use, and how popovers, drawers, and drags behave belong to `vd:design-eng`. Posting review comments on a pull request belongs to `vd:code-review`. This skill owns the polish values and the polish-pass report. When both load, the numbers in this file win.

## Concentric border radius
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vanducng/skills/better-ui@sha256:681ee437716f6d19

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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_75jf6caovponqt2g.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_75jf6caovponqt2g)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 4, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 3 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.1 latest2026-10-07 2ab1959 8,069 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-04 1faa77f 7,893 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 (8069 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

vanducng/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_75jf6caovponqt2g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanducng/skills/better-ui
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/681ee437716f6d19eb2512434b447b0459079707ff24714b3426e0be0ee2bf45

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