grainy-gradient SKILL.md skillA

grainy-gradient from julianromli/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add julianromli/ai-skills/grainy-gradient@git:20261023.b9be9dd

Pins git:20261023.b9be9dd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
julianromli/ai-skills
Path
skills/grainy-gradient/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261023.b9be9dd, committed Oct 23, 2026
Size
5,858 bytes
Repository stars
214
License
none declared

Use this when making soft, premium gradient backgrounds or covers (ElevenLabs / macOS wallpaper style) - blurred color blobs plus a fine grain noise layer, optional thin white line patterns, in HTML/CSS/Canvas with no images.

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

# Grainy gradient (ElevenLabs-style covers)

Source: @ianneo_ai breakdown of ElevenLabs blog covers (https://x.com/ianneo_ai/status/2113225499556381172).

## Why it looks premium
1. Color: 4-5 big color blobs overlap. Edges blur fully. No visible shapes.
2. Direction: top is light and cool. Bottom is dark and warm, like sky over ground.
3. Palette: use only neighbor hues on the color wheel (analogous). Example: blue-grey to sand-yellow to orange-red. Green goes only with blue and yellow.
4. Grain (the most important part): a 1-physical-pixel grey noise layer over everything. It shows in bright areas and almost disappears in dark areas. Grain breaks color banding and removes the plastic look, so the result feels like paper or out-of-focus film.
5. Optional pattern: thin white lines on top: rays, concentric contours, sound-wave lines, dot grid, lens shapes.

## Build recipe (HTML + CSS + Canvas, no images, no libraries)
1. Base: one top-to-bottom linear-gradient. Light and cool at the top, dark and warm at the bottom.
2. Blobs: stack 4 large radial-gradient layers that fade to transparent. Put them at the corners and edges, not the center.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add julianromli/ai-skills/grainy-gradient@sha256:fb1f6e3d54b9a61d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.b9be9dd, 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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mdr badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 23, 2026.

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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 (5858 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

julianromli/ai-skills · 214 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bxbggvqd2praexdt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=julianromli/ai-skills/grainy-gradient
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fb1f6e3d54b9a61d4842f4f02427e503a9c2ef9136b16aeaa8630a36f377e0f3

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