replicate SKILL.md skillA
replicate from illodev/drawn-by-code is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add illodev/drawn-by-code/replicate@git:20260926.66a91c5Pins git:20260926.66a91c5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- illodev/drawn-by-code
- Path
.claude/skills/replicate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260926.66a91c5, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 17,305 bytes
- Repository stars
- 27
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
How to replicate a reference video 1:1 (or study a style from one) with the drawn-by-code engine, measuring instead of guessing, element by element, until the difference only shows when zooming in. Use it whenever the user gives a video to copy, recreate, match or "make it like this", when working on sandbox/2026-09-24-what-do-you-love, or when a piece has to reach the detail level of a finished film. Covers the workflow, the measuring tools in engine/reference.mjs, per-drawing choreography…
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
# Replicate a reference video **Credit the original.** A replica is a study of someone else's work: name the author and link the original in the experiment's `brief.md`, in `sandbox/INDEX.md` and wherever the replica is shown (the README's gallery). Keep the reference video and its soundtrack out of git (`out/`), and commit the replica's render without the original's audio (`-an`). Worked example: `sandbox/2026-09-24-what-do-you-love/`, a replica of [a video by Kevin Ngo](https://x.com/kevin_t_ngo/status/2102437977435893771) ([@kevin_t_ngo](https://x.com/kevin_t_ngo)) (a 28 s paper-cutout film, 2160², 24 fps, animated on twos). Its whole-video difference went 29 → 22.6 (animatic) → 14.2 (detail pass), and the user's verdict was «I have to zoom in to see differences». Its `review.md` tells the story round by round; `segments/README.md` explains how it is built. **Transcribing is copying.** A tool that reads an artist's pixels (or vectors, or frames) off the reference and replays them is a copy of their art, not a drawing by code: keep that data in the experiment's `private/` (gitignored), never commit or publish it, and say so in …
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How to install
mdr add illodev/drawn-by-code/replicate@sha256:c36edc12fe94ce47The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.66a91c5, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260926.66a91c5 latest | 2026-09-26 | 66a91c5 | 17,305 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.ec5b1ab | 2026-09-25 | ec5b1ab | 16,264 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.0e28ddb | 2026-09-25 | 0e28ddb | 16,510 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.b590a10 | 2026-09-24 | b590a10 | 15,096 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.ce52ae1 | 2026-09-24 | ce52ae1 | 15,004 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.5bb7cf3 | 2026-09-24 | 5bb7cf3 | 14,505 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 (17305 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
illodev/drawn-by-code · 27 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cbpyq7ha26obw7gh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=illodev/drawn-by-code/replicate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c36edc12fe94ce47aeaba5f183c70f68d7a0347d7fbfc551c376da15536e7b2f
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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.
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