shape SKILL.md skillA

shape from educlopez/ui-craft is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add educlopez/ui-craft/shape@git:20260725.d9710bc

Pins git:20260725.d9710bc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: educlopez/ui-craft
Path: .agents/skills/shape/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20260725.d9710bc, committed Jul 25, 2026
First version recorded: Apr 18, 2026
Size: 7,144 bytes
Repository stars: 425
License: MIT

Wireframe-first pass — outputs an ASCII layout + state list + content inventory + question list before any code. Use when starting a new screen from scratch or when the user's brief is still ambiguous. Invoke when the user asks for shape on their UI, or mentions 'shape' alongside design / UI / frontend work.

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

<!-- HARNESS MIRROR — do not edit here. Canonical source: skills/ or commands/. After editing source, copy into cli/assets/<harness>/ and repo-root harness mirrors. -->

**Context:** this sub-skill is one lens of the broader `ui-craft` skill. If the `ui-craft` skill is also installed, read its SKILL.md first for Discovery + Anti-Slop + Craft Test, then apply the specific lens below.

Shape the UI for `$ARGUMENTS` before writing code. Load the `ui-craft` skill.

This command produces a **shape artifact**, not JSX. The point is to force low-fi thinking — content inventory, layout regions, state coverage, open questions — before any component is written. Skipping this step is how generic AI UIs get built: straight to hi-fi, no discovery, every screen looks the same.

**Step 1 — Clarify (3-5 questions).** Ask the user before shaping. Don't guess. Minimum questions:

- What's the **primary user action** on this screen? (One verb, one object.)
- What data is **visible by default** vs **hidden behind a click or tab**?
- What does **success** look like — a state, a redirect, a toast?
- Who's the **primary user** — first-timer, power user, mobile-first?
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add educlopez/ui-craft/shape@sha256:36e90f8de8d64620

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260725.d9710bc, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_knlhli3gpe4fp6gl.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_knlhli3gpe4fp6gl)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 18, 2026 and Jul 25, 2026, about one every 24 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260725.d9710bc latest	2026-07-25	d9710bc	7,144 B	A	view · diff
git:20260704.14809b1	2026-07-04	14809b1	7,084 B	A	view · diff
git:20260624.b21c668	2026-06-24	b21c668	7,049 B	A	view · diff
git:20260419.91442b9	2026-04-19	91442b9	6,152 B	A	view · diff
git:20260418.8ab5b67	2026-04-18	8ab5b67	6,159 B	A	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 (7144 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

educlopez/ui-craft · 425 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_knlhli3gpe4fp6gl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=educlopez/ui-craft/shape
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/36e90f8de8d646206843139711ca6aa9f99c818a9db248a03b374fa8014e8013

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.

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