visual-novel SKILL.md skillA
visual-novel from gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/visual-novel@git:20260808.3727d02Pins git:20260808.3727d02 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills
- Path
skills/genres/visual-novel/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260808.3727d02, committed Aug 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 24, 2026
- Size
- 6,765 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,784
- License
- Apache-2.0
Build a visual novel: a branching script, character and background display, a text box with choices, save/load, backlog, and skip/auto. Use for a VN, dating sim, or branching story game.
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
# Visual Novel A playbook for visual novels — the branching script, the presentation (text box, characters, backgrounds), choices, and the quality-of-life systems players expect (save anywhere, backlog, skip, auto). This is a **compositional** skill: it drives a dialogue engine and a UI layer. It does not re-teach the dialogue engine or UI nodes; it defines the script model and the player conveniences that make a VN pleasant to read. ## When to use - Use when the game is **mostly reading branching text** with character art and backgrounds: visual novel, dating sim, branching interactive fiction, story-choice game. - Use when designing a choice/route structure, story flags, or VN conveniences (backlog, skip, auto-advance, save-anywhere). **When *not* to use:** dialogue as one feature inside a larger game → `rpg` consuming `dialogue-systems`. Card/board play → other genres. For the branching-script engine itself, use `dialogue-systems` (Ink / Yarn Spinner). ## Core loop **Read a line → advance → (at a branch) make a choice → the story branches on flags/choices → read on → reach an ending.** The "game" is the *shape of the branching* and whether choices …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/visual-novel@sha256:081f25d30ca70219The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260808.3727d02, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jun 24, 2026 and Aug 8, 2026, about one every 23 days.
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| git:20260808.3727d02 latest | 2026-08-08 | 3727d02 | 6,765 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260625.8902adf | 2026-06-25 | 8902adf | 6,946 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260624.a2f8bfc | 2026-06-24 | a2f8bfc | 6,866 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6765 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
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Source
gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills · 1,784 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i6lfpc7xehmlsng6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills/visual-novel GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/081f25d30ca70219e54496a4b19f3d8568488e3e32d51af6b743ca4d67a6cf03
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.