surface-separation SKILL.md skillA
surface-separation from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/surface-separation@git:20261001.b05848aPins git:20261001.b05848a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dembrandt/dembrandt-skills
- Path
skills/surface-separation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261001.b05848a, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 7,190 bytes
- Repository stars
- 183
- License
- MIT
Set a surface apart by one means — border, elevation or fill — and keep opacity for state. Use when designing cards, panels, list rows, toolbars or any container.
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
# Surface Separation A surface — a card, a panel, a toolbar, a row — needs to read as distinct from whatever sits behind it. There are exactly three ways to achieve that, and the mistake is almost always using more than one at full strength rather than choosing badly between them. ## Pick One Strategy Per Surface | Strategy | Mechanism | Reads as | Best for | |---|---|---|---| | **Border** | 1px line at the boundary | Precise, drawn, documentary | Dense UI, tables, forms, anything where the edge itself carries meaning | | **Elevation** | Shadow implying height | Floating, temporary, above | Modals, dropdowns, popovers, drag states | | **Fill** | Contrasting background tone | Grouped, embedded, part of the page | Sections, sidebars, alternating rows, inline callouts | Each answers a different question. A border says *where the surface ends*. An elevation says *how far above the page it sits*. A fill says *what it belongs to*. Choose based on which question the user actually has. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/surface-separation@sha256:9183bb531aabc36dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.b05848a, 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_aoqb2pzdm4icf6a2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261001.b05848a latest | 2026-10-01 | b05848a | 7,190 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.d9eeaf5 | 2026-09-19 | d9eeaf5 | 7,433 B | A | view |
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 (7190 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
dembrandt/dembrandt-skills · 183 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aoqb2pzdm4icf6a2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/surface-separation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9183bb531aabc36d5e1e54bf15056bbc55da093b0f61ae56a8e970823d902c0a
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.