brand-lock-extractor SKILL.md skillA

brand-lock-extractor from whystrohm/shotkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add whystrohm/shotkit/brand-lock-extractor@git:20260926.d8553b4

Pins git:20260926.d8553b4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
whystrohm/shotkit
Path
skills/brand-lock-extractor/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260926.d8553b4, committed Sep 26, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 18, 2026
Size
8,603 bytes
Repository stars
23
License
Apache-2.0

Extract a production-ready brand-lock.md from a brand's existing assets. Point it at a website URL, a brand book PDF, screenshots, or a written description and it produces the nine-section brand-lock the rest of shotkit consumes, with a confidence and source noted for every value. Use when the user wants to onboard a brand, says "build a brand lock", "extract my brand", "make a brand pack from my site", or hands over brand assets. The cold-start killer that turns a blank brand-pack template…

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

# Brand Lock Extractor

The blank brand-pack template (`_template.md`) is the single biggest point of friction in shotkit. Nobody wants to hand-author nine sections of brand parameters before they can produce a single storyboard. This skill removes that wall: hand it what you already have, get a filled brand-lock back.

The output is a `brand-lock.md` in the exact format `validate_brand_lock.py` validates and every other skill consumes. Same file the pipeline reads, produced from your assets instead of from scratch.

This skill extracts. It does not invent. Every value is sampled from a real asset or flagged as an estimate the user must confirm. A confident-sounding wrong hex is worse than a flagged guess.

## Where the tools and packs are

After `./install.sh`, the validators and helpers are in `~/.claude/shotkit-tools/` and the
brand packs are in `~/.claude/shotkit-brand-packs/`. A `--project` install puts both
under `./.claude/` instead. From a repo clone they are `tools/` and `brand-packs/`. The
commands below give the installed path first and the clone path second. The tools need
`pip install pyyaml jsonschema`.

## When to use

Trigger when the user:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add whystrohm/shotkit/brand-lock-extractor@sha256:36d2c502d0b0ebe2

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.d8553b4, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_aoagsu4ilyjoupgz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_aoagsu4ilyjoupgz)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 18, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 100 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260926.d8553b4 latest2026-09-26 d8553b4 8,603 BA view · diff
git:20260618.bd0c9f32026-06-18 bd0c9f3 7,976 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 (8603 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

whystrohm/shotkit · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aoagsu4ilyjoupgz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=whystrohm/shotkit/brand-lock-extractor
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/36d2c502d0b0ebe23133885e3a5a6c7099c34a2a507ae2d711c8512e83e62fc2

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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