dialogue-systems SKILL.md skillA

dialogue-systems from ukanwat/overtime is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add ukanwat/overtime/dialogue-systems@git:20260812.5b73825

Pins git:20260812.5b73825 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: ukanwat/overtime
Path: .claude/skills/dialogue-systems/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260812.5b73825, committed Aug 12, 2026
Size: 7,377 bytes
Repository stars: 399
License: MIT

Build branching dialogue and narrative — a node/choice graph with conditions, variables, and localization hooks — and choose between authoring tools Ink and Yarn Spinner or a custom data-driven runner. Engine-neutral. Use when the user mentions dialogue system, branching dialogue, conversation tree, choices, Ink (.ink), Yarn Spinner (.yarn), or NPC dialogue.

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

# Dialogue systems

Model conversations as a **graph**: nodes hold lines, choices branch the flow,
conditions gate options, and variables remember what the player did. The first
real decision is *build vs. buy* — adopt a proven authoring tool (**Ink** or
**Yarn Spinner**) or write a small data-driven runner. This skill owns both Ink
and Yarn; the `visual-novel` and `rpg` genres consume it.

## When to use

- Use to design branching conversations, choice menus, or narrative state
  (flags, relationship values) that affect later dialogue.
- Use to decide between Ink, Yarn Spinner, and a custom JSON/resource format.
- Use to wire a dialogue script into your game loop (advance line, present
  choices, run commands, resolve variables).

**When *not* to use:** for engine UI (text boxes, portraits, choice buttons), use
`godot-ui-control` or the engine's UI skill. For persisting narrative variables
across sessions, use `save-systems`. For data-as-resources in Godot/Unity, see
`godot-resources` / `unity-scriptableobjects`.

## Core workflow

1. **Choose the authoring approach.**
   - **Ink** — prose-first, writer-friendly, weave/gather flow; great for
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add ukanwat/overtime/dialogue-systems@sha256:8c39ba14fd086769

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260812.5b73825, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 12, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260812.5b73825 latest	2026-08-12	5b73825	7,377 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 (7377 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

ukanwat/overtime · 399 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kzpb3yu54bg2jnix
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ukanwat/overtime/dialogue-systems
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c39ba14fd086769912e9d3754d8134f355069c98133d9641a424261e42c6e59

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