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variant-design-system from yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill/variant-design-system@git:20261005.4992c34

Pins git:20261005.4992c34 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill
Path
skills/variant-design-system/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261005.4992c34, committed Oct 5, 2026
First version recorded
May 28, 2026
Size
15,144 bytes
Repository stars
47
License
MIT

Design System mode — tokens → components → pages three-layer workflow. Generate a complete token set (palette/type/spacing/motion/elevation/radius), confirm it, then all downstream outputs are visually consistent. Triggers on: ds, design system, tokens, create token set, define palette, define tokens, set up tokens, ds confirm, compose.

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

> Before generating code, load `skills/shared/code-output.md`, `references/project-context.md`, and `references/quality-baseline.md`.

For product-critical work, also read `references/design-declaration.md` and `references/product-integrity-gate.md`. A confirmed design system locks the declaration's product constraints as well as visual tokens.

## Design System Mode

The canonical workflow for production-quality work. Define once, generate consistently.

```
ds → confirm → component [name] → compose [page]
↑                    ↑                   ↑
Token foundation   Atomic pieces     Assembled layouts
```

### Triggers

| User says | Action |
|---|---|
| `ds` / "create a design system" / "define tokens" / "set up tokens" | Generate design system → preview → confirm |
| `ds confirm` | Lock the current design system and any product-critical Design Declaration for future outputs |
| `ds edit [section]` | Edit one section of the design system (palette / type / spacing / motion) without regenerating all |
| `ds show` | Print current design system token summary in terminal |
| `component [name]` (after DS confirmed) | Generate component using locked DS tokens, all 8 states |
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill/variant-design-system@sha256:c588fd62a72b0d1c

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.4992c34, 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 May 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 65 days.

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15144 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
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  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill · 47 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ioyxnzdoaucnhy4t
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill/variant-design-system
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c588fd62a72b0d1c8abb3e2c692db3091cd0d2cf50b9c46649fd47053cb770e1

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