layout-grid SKILL.md skillA
layout-grid from tomcounsell/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/layout-grid@git:20261027.b1054fcPins git:20261027.b1054fc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomcounsell/ai
- Path
skills/valor/bama/skills/design/layout-grid/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261027.b1054fc, committed Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 5,185 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31
- License
- GPL-3.0
Grid and alignment rules for a macOS SwiftUI app, with three checks that catch misalignment (a lint for off-grid numbers, a layout probe that measures real frames in snapshot mode, and a grid overlay). Use when building or reviewing a custom page, card, row, form, or sheet, after every build that touched layout, or when the user says something looks misaligned, crooked, cramped, or unevenly spaced.
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
# Layout grid
Agents guess numbers. A guessed `.padding(13)` looks almost right and
makes the whole app feel slightly off. This skill replaces guessing with
one scale and three checks that fail when something is off.
The template has everything in place: `Sources/<App>/UI/Grid.swift` and
`tools/`. For an app made before this skill, copy `UI/Grid.swift`,
`tools/grid-lint.sh`, and `tools/check-layout.swift` from the `new-mac-app`
skill's template, and the layout file line from its `Snapshot.swift`.
## The rules
1. Every padding, spacing, and size comes from `Space`: `xs 4`, `sm 8`,
`md 12`, `lg 16`, `xl 20`, `xxl 24`, `section 32`. Raw numbers are
0, 1, 2, or a multiple of 4.
2. Pages and windows have a 20 pt margin (`Space.margin`). Cards pad 16
(`Space.lg`). Related controls sit 8 apart, groups 20 to 24, sections 32.
3. Each column has one leading edge. Titles, text, cards, and buttons in a
column start on the same x. Indent on purpose, by a step of the scale.
4. Let containers do the aligning:
- Labels with controls: `Form` with `.formStyle(.grouped)`, or
`.columns` for the Mac layout of right-aligned labels.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/layout-grid@sha256:51d265f4f45d212eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.b1054fc, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_7h4bpnmrb7ssfgc4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 27, 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 (5185 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
tomcounsell/ai · 31 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7h4bpnmrb7ssfgc4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomcounsell/ai/layout-grid GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51d265f4f45d212e5ee064b86833f4483bef8efde42ab3e80fd1bd7ab5c517af
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