file-browser SKILL.md skillA

file-browser from vanducng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vanducng/skills/file-browser@v0.5.1

Pins v0.5.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vanducng/skills
Path
skills/file-browser/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.5.1, committed Sep 11, 2026
First version recorded
May 6, 2026
Size
12,739 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
MIT

Local HTTP server that renders markdown, code, text, JSON, CSV/TSV/XLSX tables, HTML, PDF, images, video, and audio in the browser. Persistent left tree sidebar with vim keybindings (j/k/h/l/gg/G/Enter/o), filter (/), theme toggle (T), and folder open/collapse persistence per tab. Markdown dispatches to a novel-theme reader (Mermaid, plan nav, ToC scroll-spy); code/text dispatches to a highlight.js view with line numbers + copy button; CSV/TSV/XLSX dispatches to a tabular view; HTML renders in…

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

# file-browser

One local HTTP server, one port, one CLI - handles markdown, images, video, and audio. Dispatches by file extension at the `/view` route: markdown goes to the novel-theme reader; image/video/audio go to the media viewer.

## Installation

```bash
cd $HOME/skills/skills/file-browser && npm install
```

**Dependencies:** `marked`, `highlight.js`, `gray-matter` (markdown), `pdfjs-dist` (PDF viewer), `read-excel-file` (XLSX tables). Media rendering is zero-dep - browser does the work.

`npm install` runs a `postinstall` hook that copies pdfjs-dist runtime deps (worker, cmaps, fonts, wasm helpers) from `node_modules/pdfjs-dist/` into `assets/pdfjs-viewer/`. If you ran `npm install --ignore-scripts`, populate the assets manually:

```bash
node $HOME/skills/skills/file-browser/scripts/install-pdfjs-assets.cjs
```

## Quick Start

```bash
# Single file (auto-detects markdown vs media)
node $HOME/skills/skills/file-browser/scripts/server.cjs --file ./plan.md --open
node $HOME/skills/skills/file-browser/scripts/server.cjs --file ./photo.png --open
node $HOME/skills/skills/file-browser/scripts/server.cjs --file ./demo.mp4 --open

# Folder (gallery + Documents section)
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vanducng/skills/file-browser@sha256:815f6263f32ce3e4

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.5.1, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_jqve2t5levemftn5.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jqve2t5levemftn5)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 32 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.5.1 latest2026-09-11 9e58ef3 12,739 BA view · diff
v0.5.12026-07-24 51405ee 13,674 BA view · diff
v0.5.12026-05-28 cbbd230 13,706 BA view · diff
v0.5.02026-05-06 866fbca 13,467 BA view · diff
v0.5.02026-05-06 4811b6f 10,522 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12739 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

GitHub

vanducng/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jqve2t5levemftn5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanducng/skills/file-browser
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/815f6263f32ce3e46c8b1c7d75c9f670be6c9817db9446865cc5df93628fd881

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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