explainer-gif SKILL.md skillB
explainer-gif from gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/explainer-gif@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns
- Path
.agents/skills/outreach/explainer-gif/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 22, 2026
- Size
- 12,180 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- CC0-1.0
Script a terminal session as a deterministic tape and render it to an accessible, readable GIF or short video for documentation and outreach.
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
# Skill: Explainer GIF (Terminal Screencast) Script a terminal session as a tape file, then render it deterministically to a GIF (or short MP4/WebM) of a command-line tool in action. The recording is reproducible: there is no live typing to fumble, the same inputs always produce the same frames, and the artifact can be re-rendered in CI. This skill produces draft tape scripts and recording commands for human review before publishing. ## When to Use - Showing what a CLI tool does at the top of a README - Producing a paced, readable terminal walkthrough for documentation - Re-rendering a demo automatically when the tool changes - User asks to "record a terminal demo", "make a demo GIF", or "screencast the CLI" ## Prerequisites - The CLI tool to demonstrate, runnable from a shell - A recording tool installed. The reference tool is [VHS](https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs) (MIT), which renders a `.tape` script to GIF/MP4/WebM via a headless terminal plus `ffmpeg`. Alternatives: [asciinema](https://asciinema.org/) to capture a cast, and [agg](https://github.com/asciinema/agg) (asciinema-agg) to convert a cast to a GIF. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/explainer-gif@sha256:eadc337e9ae1b0fbThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_nxno3mu7csv2dk6f)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 22, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-07-28 | ea6ea67 | 12,180 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-29 | a2aa1ac | 11,647 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-22 | 1497b8c | 11,614 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12180 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns · 16 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nxno3mu7csv2dk6f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/explainer-gif GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eadc337e9ae1b0fb07457223aa49b803d5b5b09b7b167f76bb75f07f4aee0403
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