status-colors-and-errors SKILL.md skillA
status-colors-and-errors from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/status-colors-and-errors@git:20261008.20de5f2Pins git:20261008.20de5f2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dembrandt/dembrandt-skills
- Path
skills/status-colors-and-errors/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261008.20de5f2, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 8,088 bytes
- Repository stars
- 183
- License
- MIT
Few semantic colours, each meaning one thing, and errors with a way forward. Use when designing status indicators, validation, alerts or error states.
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
# Status Colours and Error Design ## Keep the Colour Set Small Every status colour added to a system is a cognitive burden on the user. They must learn what each colour means, remember it, and interpret it correctly under stress — which is exactly when errors occur. **The minimal set that covers almost everything:** | Colour | Semantic meaning | Always means | |---|---|---| | **Red** | Error / failure / destructive | Something went wrong, or this action cannot be undone | | **Orange / Amber** | Warning | Something needs attention before proceeding | | **Green** | Success / positive | Action completed, state is healthy | | **Blue** | Info / neutral status | Informational, no action required | **Rule: each colour maps to exactly one meaning across the entire product.** If orange means "warning" in one component and "pending" in another, the system breaks down. **Every status tone must be visibly distinct from the others.** If two tokens render alike, keep one. A second name for the same visible colour is not a second status: authors pick either, users read one state, and the name becomes a lie. Draft and pending states take neutral, not the warning tone. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/status-colors-and-errors@sha256:4a54aeba3c9f7d6fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.20de5f2, 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_i5tdvkr2ryx2tdeh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 43 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261008.20de5f2 latest | 2026-10-08 | 20de5f2 | 8,088 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.25be6fc | 2026-10-08 | 25be6fc | 7,422 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.b05848a | 2026-10-01 | b05848a | 7,018 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.1feef6a | 2026-07-10 | 1feef6a | 7,226 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.c4563c9 | 2026-04-19 | c4563c9 | 6,443 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 (8088 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
dembrandt/dembrandt-skills · 183 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i5tdvkr2ryx2tdeh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/status-colors-and-errors GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4a54aeba3c9f7d6f4de79bea63e2ba18a0a35bede68fb84b1a44ce595bd78012
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.