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principle-experience-first from nightly-labs/openbot is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add nightly-labs/openbot/principle-experience-first@git:20261013.9e6954c

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Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

nightly-labs/openbot

Path

marketplace/production-catalog/bundles/pstack/skills/principle-experience-first/SKILL.md

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Apply when product, UX, or feature-scope tradeoffs come up. Choose user delight over implementation convenience; ship fewer polished features over more rough ones.

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

# Experience First

When implementation convenience conflicts with user delight, choose delight.

- Every feature, control, and option must be justified
- Ship less, ship better (polished experience with three features beats rough one with ten)
- Prototype before committing (design decisions are cheaper in throwaway HTML than production code)
- Get the details right (transitions, alignment, spacing, feedback, error states)
- Tighten the core loop (every feature should serve the central workflow or get out of the way)

The user is whoever consumes the work. For a UI that is the end user. For a library or an internal API it is the colleague who imports it. The engineer who maintains the code next is a user too. Weigh their experience the same way, and explain impact from their perspective.

Foundations should serve the experience. Foundational thinking governs the *sequence* of work. This principle governs the *target*.

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How to install

mdr add nightly-labs/openbot/principle-experience-first@sha256:58903529d733b1c1

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_asa7pae6uwiewfkb.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_asa7pae6uwiewfkb)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 13, 2026.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_asa7pae6uwiewfkb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nightly-labs/openbot/principle-experience-first
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/58903529d733b1c1a7c9ccf127d45ef3c7d0d9f0b81164a4dc6b80efe6f2912b

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