aesthetic-literacy SKILL.md skillA
aesthetic-literacy from alexiseverage/aesthetic-frontend-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alexiseverage/aesthetic-frontend-skills/aesthetic-literacy@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alexiseverage/aesthetic-frontend-skills
- Path
skills/aesthetic-literacy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Nov 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 6, 2026
- Size
- 14,012 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31
- License
- MIT
Use this skill when a user names or describes a visual aesthetic (Y2K, vaporwave, brutalist, cottagecore, dark academia, etc.), wants to compare or disambiguate aesthetics, or needs formal characterization before producing design tokens or assets. Provides the 7-dimension framework (palette, type, texture, shape, motion, spatial conventions, cultural markers) and a curated dictionary of 251 major aesthetics. Foundation for aesthetic-application. Do not use for component implementation, layout…
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
# Aesthetic Literacy
## Summary
Gives an agent a structured framework for understanding named aesthetic movements as semiotic systems — not just visual preferences. Provides a 7-dimension decomposition model (palette, type, texture, shape, motion, spatial conventions, cultural markers) and a curated dictionary of 251 major aesthetics organized by family. Enables identification, characterization, disambiguation, and connotation-aware application of any named visual aesthetic.
Used as the foundation for `aesthetic-application`.
## Compatibility / Tooling
This skill intentionally does not declare `allowed-tools` frontmatter. It is portable across Agent Skills-compatible runtimes and relies on reading this SKILL.md plus skill-local `references/` and `aesthetics/` markdown files. If an agent has file-reading tools, use them to load the referenced files; otherwise ask the user to provide the relevant excerpt.
## When to Apply This Skill
Apply when:
- A user names an aesthetic ("Y2K", "brutalist", "cottagecore") and wants to understand it formally
- A user uses a vague descriptor ("retro", "cozy", "clean") that needs mapping to a concrete aesthetic
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alexiseverage/aesthetic-frontend-skills/aesthetic-literacy@sha256:d22a7e342840e834The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bqtsqkooxjv3xdcc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Nov 6, 2026 and Nov 8, 2026, more than one a day.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-11-08 | 24d6060 | 14,012 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-07 | f748299 | 14,012 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-07 | 05a917f | 14,012 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-07 | 9bba591 | 14,012 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-06 | 36a6071 | 13,924 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 (14012 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
alexiseverage/aesthetic-frontend-skills · 31 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bqtsqkooxjv3xdcc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexiseverage/aesthetic-frontend-skills/aesthetic-literacy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d22a7e342840e8343b81578d806d9b00cdaa9218525ddd519b5c80657eac7b5c
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