polly-tui SKILL.md skillA

polly-tui from alexschlessinger/polly is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add alexschlessinger/polly/polly-tui@git:20260924.902e115

Pins git:20260924.902e115 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
alexschlessinger/polly
Path
.agents/skills/polly-tui/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260924.902e115, committed Sep 24, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 5, 2026
Size
3,756 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Capture the polly TUI as PNGs — play a scenario of typed input, keys and shots through polly's own off-screen renderer, then read the images.

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

# Capturing the polly TUI

`driver.sh` builds `./polly` and plays a scenario through polly's own
off-screen renderer, so a frame can be captured with no terminal, pty
host, window or screen-recording permission, and with a fixture, no
provider key. Runs use an isolated `HOME`
(`~/.cache/polly-tui-home`) and leave PNGs in `/tmp/polly-shots/`
(override with `POLLY_SHOT_DIR`).

```bash
D=.agents/skills/polly-tui/driver.sh   # run from the repo root
$D hshot scenario.txt                  # prints each PNG path it writes
$D hshot scenario.txt 160x50           # at a wider virtual terminal
POLLY_SHOT_FIXTURE=fixture.json $D hshot scenario.txt   # seeded state, scripted model
```

```text
# scenario.txt — :shot paths are $VAR- and ~-expanded
:shot $POLLY_SHOT_DIR/splash.png
/help
:wait "Navigate" 5
:shot $POLLY_SHOT_DIR/help.png
:size 160x50
:settle
:shot $POLLY_SHOT_DIR/help-wide.png
```

A bare line is typed and submitted; `:` lines are steps: `:key <name>`,
`:type <text>`, `:submit <text>`, `:click X Y` or `:click <text> [sec]`
(the first match of the text, top to bottom), `:shot <path>`, `:size WxH`,
`:wait <pattern> [sec]`, `:settle [sec]`, `:ready [sec]`, `:sleep <ms>`,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add alexschlessinger/polly/polly-tui@sha256:f341ebc854e32d65

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.902e115, 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 6 versions of this file, between Sep 5, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026, about one every 4 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260924.902e115 latest2026-09-24 902e115 3,756 BA view · diff
git:20260923.18c8cb72026-09-23 18c8cb7 3,672 BA view · diff
git:20260921.fac90a22026-09-21 fac90a2 3,685 BA view · diff
git:20260921.f94744a2026-09-21 f94744a 2,838 BA view · diff
git:20260915.1c0f8ee2026-09-15 1c0f8ee 4,650 BA view · diff
git:20260905.155a7b22026-09-05 155a7b2 4,513 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 (3756 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

alexschlessinger/polly · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nitrs2gz2wazvvap
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexschlessinger/polly/polly-tui
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f341ebc854e32d658ea9de33849f4a974e7031c9e61fa12d8fb18b0d8549bacd

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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