design-loop SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 4 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

design-loop from jakeselby/model-citizen is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jakeselby/model-citizen/design-loop@git:20261006.b2bd78a

Pins git:20261006.b2bd78a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jakeselby/model-citizen
Path
directory/model-citizen/primitives/skills/design-loop/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261006.b2bd78a, committed Oct 6, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 28, 2026
Size
7,876 bytes
Repository stars
24
License
MIT

Raise the visual quality of something that renders through a build, screenshot, independent scored critique and fix loop, against rubrics with hard accessibility, design-token, runtime and asset-licensing gates. Use when asked to make a UI, page, HTML doc, dashboard, game scene or 3D asset look dramatically better, more polished or more professional; to improve the visual design, look, styling or visual quality of a surface; to iterate toward a reference, mockup or screenshot; and proactively…

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 loop

A closed loop that raises visual quality by measurement rather than taste. The agent that built
the thing cannot grade it, so an **independent judge with a clean context** scores each round
against a **locked target** until it clears the bar or stalls.

Derived from [dream-loop](https://github.com/achimala/dream-loop) (MIT) — see `ATTRIBUTION.md`.

**Two standing rules that apply even outside the loop.** Visual work is verified by a capture the
agent reads before anything is shown to the user; a claim about how something looks without a
capture behind it is unverified. And the look is designed in cheap loops — a mock, a sketch, a
throwaway render — before it is engineered into the real pipeline.
The loop mechanics are its contribution. The rubrics, hard gates, escalation and asset policy
here are ours and differ deliberately; do not reintroduce its asset-sourcing chapter.

## When this is the wrong skill

This skill **refines something that already renders**. It needs a running artifact to screenshot.
It does not decide what screens exist, what the flows are, or how anything behaves.

| If the ask is | Use |
| --- | --- |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jakeselby/model-citizen/design-loop@sha256:6f6ff8546f380c14

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.b2bd78a, 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, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 4 days.

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git:20261006.b2bd78a latest2026-10-06 b2bd78a 7,876 BA view · diff
git:20260929.1af83d72026-09-29 1af83d7 7,877 BA view · diff
git:20260928.ca93e6d2026-09-28 ca93e6d 7,835 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 (7876 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

jakeselby/model-citizen · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m4ldt2farogzrrjp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jakeselby/model-citizen/design-loop
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f6ff8546f380c14a9ac2a2af7369573288e0e6731e6c6feddbf9dc40269edab

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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