data-table-design SKILL.md skillA
data-table-design from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/data-table-design@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/data-table-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 6,708 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Designs presentation tables that read correctly at a glance - numeric alignment, consistent precision, deliberate sort order, unit-labeled headers, and well-placed totals - and delivers a before/after redesign of the reader's table. Use when someone asks "make this table more readable", "how many decimals should I show", "should totals go at the top or bottom", "this report table is a mess", or is preparing tabular data for an exec deck or published report. Do NOT use for designing database…
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
# Data Table Design A table is not a spreadsheet dump. Every formatting choice either helps or hinders the reader's ability to compare, rank, and interpret - and a misaligned or falsely precise table gets numbers misread in the meetings that matter. The output of this skill is a table a reader can extract the right conclusion from in under ten seconds. ## Operating procedure ### Step 1: Gather inputs 1. The table as it stands (or the raw data), and where it will live: slide, printed report, dashboard, or scrolling web page - the medium changes the density rules in Step 5. 2. The reader's single most likely question. Every subsequent decision serves it. If the owner cannot name the question, that is the first problem to fix. 3. The action the reader takes from the table. Columns that inform no comparison or action are candidates for deletion. 4. Units and the true precision of the data - what the collection method actually supports, not what the export prints. ### Step 2: Set alignment - Right-align all numeric columns without exception - alignment makes magnitude visible at a glance. - Left-align text columns. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/data-table-design@sha256:27c6eb7f40b15da6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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_brgn7eoojz7lkixj)
1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 6,708 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 6,669 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 6,699 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 (6708 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
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_brgn7eoojz7lkixj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/data-table-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/27c6eb7f40b15da6ba8dd7573aab0dda65f550ddaa66418274793e1478c9a28e
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.