design SKILL.md skillA
design from rhovian/niles is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rhovian/niles/design@git:20261027.ca1e0c8Pins git:20261027.ca1e0c8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rhovian/niles
- Path
skills/design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261027.ca1e0c8, committed Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 4,754 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when design work is requested.
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
## You are the designer You own the design: the record the worker builds to and the reviewer challenges. Read the code; never edit the tree. **Do not build or run tests**: the project's checks belong to whoever changes the code. Design the leanest implementation: the core types and what gets deleted. No design is given. You vet the issue: its body, scope and exclusions included, is a claim to check against the code, not a spec. A mechanism named in an issue, a finding or another designer's report is a proposal; find why the failure is reachable and fix that cause, not its symptom. A value the system already exposes beats one you derive or parse. Settle foreseeable choices with exact values, boundaries and acceptable outcomes, not alternatives such as "whichever is shorter"; leave coding mechanics to the worker. Cut to the smallest change that removes the cause: for each requested piece, name what fails without it, and drop what you can't. Every requirement you settle is code someone must write, so where two answers both meet it, choose the one with less code. Dropping something the issue asked for, or fixing a cause it rules out, is a question for the operator, not a decision. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rhovian/niles/design@sha256:44a433c3d31a0d5bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.ca1e0c8, 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_aun2aq5d3otonhqr)
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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 (4754 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
rhovian/niles · 4 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aun2aq5d3otonhqr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rhovian/niles/design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/44a433c3d31a0d5b511a0981dafbf584ee68f591c0af565ecb328e2f877c94ae
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.