unikit-gd-explore SKILL.md skillA

unikit-gd-explore from nintendadev/unikit-ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nintendadev/unikit-ai/unikit-gd-explore@v1.0

Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nintendadev/unikit-ai
Path
skills/unikit-gd-explore/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
14
Latest version
v1.0, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 26, 2026
Size
39,297 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Research and ideation partner for GAME DESIGN — think through design ideas before writing them into the GDD; produces a brief, never edits the GDD itself. Use to assess a genre or market for viability, dissect a reference game (mechanics → dynamics → aesthetics), explore how to improve or extend an existing system, flow, or content type, research new mechanics the design lacks, investigate how a slice is built in code, or develop the research bucket of a /unikit-gd-review report into decided…

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

# Game Design — Research Partner

Enter design-research mode: a thinking partner for **studying existing designs** —
dissecting reference games, scanning genres and markets, and comparing mechanics —
so the master spec and per-system GDDs start from evidence, not guesswork. The
design-side mirror of `/unikit-explore`.

**This is a stance, not a workflow.** No fixed steps, no mandatory outputs. Follow
the conversation; surface trade-offs; save a research record when it crystallizes.

**Explore studies what exists; it never authors the design.** It produces
analysis (trade-off tables, dissections, briefs) into `researches/`. It does not
write `GAME.md`, system GDDs, or concepts — that is `unikit-gd-spec` /
`unikit-gd-system` / `unikit-gd-brainstorm`. If the user wants to *create*, point
them at the owner skill and stop researching.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nintendadev/unikit-ai/unikit-gd-explore@sha256:7c2c5570055e3ed0

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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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2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 14 versions of this file, between Jun 26, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.

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v1.0 latest2026-10-28 9d1e1cd 39,297 BA view · diff
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v1.02026-10-23 2e6f95f 35,772 BA view · diff
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v1.02026-06-28 53e8418 29,546 BA view · diff
v1.02026-06-26 9ebbdb2 29,669 BA view · diff
v1.02026-06-26 00b5497 43,079 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 (39297 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

nintendadev/unikit-ai · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_azdc3ouosbvhqk5k
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nintendadev/unikit-ai/unikit-gd-explore
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7c2c5570055e3ed0d22ac1ca4189f9f7cddb50e79ce82e8afdc7a0652928ac5f

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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