design-loop SKILL.md skillA
design-loop from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/design-loop@git:20260901.09d08c9Pins git:20260901.09d08c9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/design-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260901.09d08c9, committed Sep 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 24, 2026
- Size
- 9,062 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when something must be built well and there is a real reference it should beat: turn what makes the reference good into measured mechanisms, then run a builder and three fresh-context critics until all three pass. Fires on 'design loop', 'make it as good as <site>', 'it looks generic'. NOT keeping an already-won look (that is `design-dna`).
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
# Design Loop — the front door of the design area *A reference you can open, mechanisms you can check, and three judges who did not build the thing.* This is where a design request **enters**. It owns the method: the bar, the judges, the rounds. It does not own the visual system — `../design/SKILL.md` does, and this skill invokes it as the builder. **Why the method and not a rubric.** A rubric scored by whoever built the piece measures *intent*, because the builder knows what they were going for and so they see it there. And scores drift upward every round: a 7 that becomes an 8 with nothing changed is how a loop declares itself finished early. Binary verdicts from someone who did not build it are the fix for both. Four phases. Do not skip ahead, and do not start building during 1 to 3. ## Phase 1 — Interview Ask exactly these three, together, then stop and wait. 1. What are you building, and how long or how big? 2. Name something that already does this brilliantly — a site, a video, a doc, anything I can open. If nothing comes to mind, say skip. 3. Any files I should work from? Design system, brand doc, script, existing draft. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/design-loop@sha256:22094c8e045e0f1aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.09d08c9, 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_d6pjoplmpm5prv4x)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 24, 2026 and Sep 1, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260901.09d08c9 latest | 2026-09-01 | 09d08c9 | 9,062 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.7ebebaf | 2026-08-24 | 7ebebaf | 9,056 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.a1e713b | 2026-08-24 | a1e713b | 8,376 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.9502659 | 2026-08-24 | 9502659 | 7,775 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 (9062 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
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d6pjoplmpm5prv4x GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/design-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/22094c8e045e0f1ae15973b982cb47541a78ec2538658b84af33bd7d6494d3d8
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.
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