pe-design SKILL.md skillA

pe-design from backnotprop/product-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add backnotprop/product-engineering/pe-design@git:20260826.ecccb1e

Pins git:20260826.ecccb1e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
backnotprop/product-engineering
Path
skills/pe-design/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260826.ecccb1e, committed Aug 26, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
5,471 bytes
Repository stars
25
License
Apache-2.0

Design-process work before production code. Use to capture product and design-system context (PRODUCT.md / DESIGN.md), write a design brief for one feature or flow, set creative direction and taste, build wireframes / mockups / prototypes / diagrams / plans as self-contained HTML, render competing variations of a UI piece behind a picker, design onboarding and first-run flows, or record an approved artifact under .product/approved/. Triggers on design, design brief, "write a brief…

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

# Design

Everything before production code. This spine routes; the craft lives in the
reference files — load only what the mode needs.

## Contract (all modes)

- **Deliverables are documents and artifacts**, never production code. The one
  sanctioned codebase touch is vary mode's throwaway picker harness, removed when a
  variant is promoted.
- **Authority chain, every mode:** the user's words → the project's design system
  (DESIGN.md, tokens, components) → the subject itself → your judgment. Never let a
  preset or a habit override an upstream authority.
- **Derivation is the default; presets are commissions.** Direction comes from the
  subject and brief (`direct/index.md`). A named preset (`direct/presets/`) is used
  only when the user's direction explicitly matches it.
- **Motion in artifacts must be motivated.** If the reason doesn't fit one sentence,
  the element stays static.

## Modes

| Mode | When | Load from `references/` |
| --- | --- | --- |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add backnotprop/product-engineering/pe-design@sha256:170dff6622ff0566

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.ecccb1e, 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, all committed on Aug 26, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260826.ecccb1e latest2026-08-26 ecccb1e 5,471 BA view · diff
git:20260826.71e7a232026-08-26 71e7a23 4,409 BA view · diff
git:20260826.4e34f3c2026-08-26 4e34f3c 3,973 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 (5471 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

backnotprop/product-engineering · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-08-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jv77l3vqqjwgbvqa
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=backnotprop/product-engineering/pe-design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/170dff6622ff0566a7465ed193626f03284dc637e3b047bd084656b587cdfe33

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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