pe-build SKILL.md skillA

pe-build from backnotprop/product-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add backnotprop/product-engineering/pe-build@git:20260826.30b96c6

Pins git:20260826.30b96c6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
backnotprop/product-engineering
Path
skills/pe-build/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260826.30b96c6, committed Aug 26, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
5,886 bytes
Repository stars
25
License
Apache-2.0

Write and refine production UI code to a high craft bar. Use for building components, polish and detail work (spacing, typography, color, copy, icons, shadows, interaction states), implementing animation and gestures, implementing accessibility (keyboard, screen readers, focus, forms), and hardening for production (real data, failure states, devices, languages, offline, shipping metadata). Triggers on build, implement, polish, refine, tighten, "feels off", animate, transition, gesture, drawer…

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

# Build

Production UI to the craft bar. This spine routes and carries the shared loop; the
craft itself lives in the reference files — load only what the mode needs.

## The loop (every mode)

1. **Boundary** — name the exact target, what must remain unchanged, and the surface's
   job (persuade / operate / read / experience); read `DESIGN.md` when present and
   verify it against tokens, components, and rendered output. Read `.product/approved/`
   for a record matching the target: an approved artifact ranks above your judgment and
   below the user's words — implement to it, and state any deviation (constraint,
   platform, accessibility) before making it, never as a silent improvement. Preserve
   the incumbent identity: polish is refinement, never a concealed redesign.
2. **Evidence** — read the real code and, where possible, the rendered result before
   changing anything.
3. **Triage** — fix in order: blocked tasks and inaccessible paths → missing states
   and recovery → flow, hierarchy, responsiveness, drift → visual/copy/motion
   inconsistencies → cleanup. Don't perfect one corner while the path stays below bar.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add backnotprop/product-engineering/pe-build@sha256:8984e45e8dd3d80e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.30b96c6, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_cum63izg6rbvbyzs.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cum63izg6rbvbyzs)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 26, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260826.30b96c6 latest2026-08-26 30b96c6 5,886 BA view · diff
git:20260826.ecccb1e2026-08-26 ecccb1e 5,778 BA view · diff
git:20260826.4e34f3c2026-08-26 4e34f3c 5,415 BA view

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 (5886 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

backnotprop/product-engineering · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-08-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cum63izg6rbvbyzs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=backnotprop/product-engineering/pe-build
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8984e45e8dd3d80e86762a230b1da099514d2115d56309b79a69fc0efaeec26c

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