pretext SKILL.md skillB
pretext from tdimino/claude-code-minoan is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/pretext@git:20260416.4e43d41Pins git:20260416.4e43d41 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tdimino/claude-code-minoan
- Path
skills/design-media/pretext/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260416.4e43d41, committed Apr 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 28, 2026
- Size
- 14,174 bytes
- Repository stars
- 41
- License
- MIT
Create text effects impossible with CSS alone — kinetic typography, flowing text around animated obstacles, calligrams, shrinkwrap chat bubbles, typographic ASCII art, glyph path animation, variable font waves, glyph morphing, illuminated manuscripts. Single-file HTML output, zero build step. Powered by @chenglou/pretext + opentype.js. Triggers on text effects, kinetic typography, text animation, calligram, glyph art, typography art.
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
# Pretext Text Effects Generate browser pages powered by Pretext (`@chenglou/pretext`)—a pure-arithmetic text measurement library that bypasses DOM layout reflow entirely. Pretext measures text with proportional font precision using canvas `measureText`, enabling effects impossible with CSS alone. **Companion library: opentype.js** (`opentype.js@1.3.4`) — direct font binary parsing for per-glyph SVG path rendering, Bezier control point access, kerning tables, and variable font axes. Pretext handles line breaking; opentype.js handles what happens *inside* each glyph. Together they unlock effects neither can achieve alone. Output is always a **single self-contained HTML file**. No build step, no framework, runs in any modern browser. ## Quick Start Describe a text effect. Claude picks the right Pretext pattern and generates a complete HTML file. Examples: - `/pretext fluid smoke ASCII art with gold characters on black` - `/pretext chat bubbles that shrinkwrap tighter than CSS` - `/pretext calligram — the word "ocean" shaped like a wave` - `/pretext editorial layout with text flowing around draggable circles` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/pretext@sha256:9342c5845fdca116The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260416.4e43d41, 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_dki4r5fjdxoa22n5)
4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 28, 2026 and Apr 16, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260416.4e43d41 latest | 2026-04-16 | 4e43d41 | 14,174 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260406.a5b8546 | 2026-04-06 | a5b8546 | 14,293 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260406.dc753ba | 2026-04-06 | dc753ba | 14,271 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260401.319ac89 | 2026-04-01 | 319ac89 | 12,975 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260328.b48135f | 2026-03-28 | b48135f | 7,382 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No script tag (matched: <script)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14174 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
tdimino/claude-code-minoan · 41 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dki4r5fjdxoa22n5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tdimino/claude-code-minoan/pretext GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9342c5845fdca116f5ecab848c496eb974d4f61a87835ff0c561a72f8a2b18cb
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.
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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