hci-desktop-apps SKILL.md skillA
hci-desktop-apps from mehranqadirian/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mehranqadirian/skills/hci-desktop-apps@git:20261104.81fe8aaPins git:20261104.81fe8aa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mehranqadirian/skills
- Path
hci/hci-desktop-apps/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261104.81fe8aa, committed Nov 4, 2026
- Size
- 4,156 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- none declared
Applies human-computer interaction principles to desktop applications built with Electron, Qt, GTK, WPF, WinUI, AppKit, Tauri or similar. Use whenever the user designs or reviews a desktop app and cares about keyboard shortcuts, menus, toolbars, dialogs, window behavior, command palettes, long-running operations, undo, accessibility with NVDA, VoiceOver or Orca, high contrast, or platform conventions on Windows, macOS and Linux, even if they only say "my desktop app feels clunky". Audits…
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
# hci-desktop-apps
Design desktop software that rewards long use: keyboard-first, predictable, fast and respectful of each platform. Builds on `hci-foundations`.
```
hci-desktop-apps/
├── SKILL.md
├── scripts/
│ └── check_shortcuts.py audit shortcuts: conflicts, OS-reserved, standards, wrong modifier
└── references/
└── desktop-guidelines.md keyboard, menus, dialogs, pointer, feedback, accessibility, settings, tests
```
## When to use
- Designing or reviewing menus, toolbars, dialogs and window behavior
- Defining or fixing keyboard shortcuts, adding a command palette
- Long-running operations, progress, cancel, autosave and undo
- Accessibility for screen readers, high contrast and scaling
- Making one app feel right on Windows, macOS and Linux
## Workflow
1. **Understand the users and platforms**: who uses it for how long, which tasks repeat, which operating systems, which toolkit (native, Qt, GTK, Electron, Tauri).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mehranqadirian/skills/hci-desktop-apps@sha256:38bafebe80946fdeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.81fe8aa, 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_btdvqfslf6zhjtg6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 4, 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 (4156 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
mehranqadirian/skills · 13 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_btdvqfslf6zhjtg6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mehranqadirian/skills/hci-desktop-apps GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/38bafebe80946fdec1dc265738b7fb38f6ea17cb03c16fd1c2f31c0e0136f2eb
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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.