gentle-design SKILL.md skillA

gentle-design from gentleman-programming/gentle-pi is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/gentle-design@v1.0

Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
gentleman-programming/gentle-pi
Path
skills/design/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v1.0, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 26, 2026
Size
9,561 bytes
Repository stars
2,023
License
MIT

Trigger: design a screen or page, mockup, landing page, UI directions, artboards, try a different approach, design system sync. Write self-contained HTML design directions under design/<slug>/.

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

## Activation Contract

Use this skill by default whenever the user asks, in plain words, for a UI design, mockup, screen, landing page, or visual directions, or iterates on artboards under `design/`. Do not use it to implement production code in the project's stack.

The `/gentle:design` commands are optional shortcuts: every action also works from a plain request, through this skill and the `gentle_design` tool (`list`, `open`, `stop`, `implement`, `handoff`).

## Hard Rules

- Every artboard is one self-contained HTML file: inline CSS, JS, and SVG; system font stacks only. Never reference external URLs, CDNs, remote fonts, images, or scripts.
- Use realistic content for the audience; no lorem ipsum or placeholder names.
- Accessible markup: semantic elements and landmarks, WCAG AA contrast, visible focus styles, `prefers-reduced-motion` respected for any motion.
- When `design/system.md` exists, read it first and use only its tokens and component rules; run the Self-check from "Design system sync" before finishing any artboard.
- Ask at most one clarifying question, and only when the brief lacks the goal or the content.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/gentle-design@sha256:d20ebb67e470df08

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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_ku6aujmxymbthlon.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ku6aujmxymbthlon)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0 latest2026-11-04 22515f4 9,561 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-26 d4f5d74 9,033 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-26 4d6f6de 8,341 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-26 5531280 7,938 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-26 1d33731 7,849 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-26 ba48a22 7,152 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 (9561 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

gentleman-programming/gentle-pi · 2,023 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ku6aujmxymbthlon
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gentleman-programming/gentle-pi/gentle-design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d20ebb67e470df0822601fad7d1321213a0cd716fa0d7f52c569b583ead67919

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