real-world-metaphors SKILL.md skillA
real-world-metaphors from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors@git:20261001.b05848aPins git:20261001.b05848a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dembrandt/dembrandt-skills
- Path
skills/real-world-metaphors/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261001.b05848a, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 5,531 bytes
- Repository stars
- 183
- License
- MIT
Cards, drawers, carousels and other patterns borrowed from the physical world. Use when designing layout patterns, gestures or navigation paradigms.
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
# Real-World Metaphors in UI UI patterns borrowed from the physical world reduce the learning curve because users already know how they work. A card feels like something you can pick up. A carousel feels like flipping through a stack. A drawer feels like it slides out from the side. These metaphors carry affordance — the user knows what to do before reading any instructions. Use them deliberately, not decoratively. ## Common Metaphors and When to Use Them ### Card A card is a bounded, self-contained unit of content — like a physical index card or a product on a shelf. **Use when:** - Content items are discrete and comparable (products, people, articles, tasks) - Each item needs to be scanned quickly and potentially acted on - Items benefit from a visual thumbnail, image, or icon **Key properties:** - Cards should be graspable: elevation (`--shadow-sm`), border-radius, and clear boundary - All cards in a set should be the same width; height can vary with content - One primary action per card — secondary actions appear on hover or inside a detail view - Cards imply "I can pick this up and do something with it" — if nothing happens on click, use a list instead …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors@sha256:73f12445e289179cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.b05848a, 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_nzcenjsjx2bl23l2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 165 days.
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| git:20261001.b05848a latest | 2026-10-01 | b05848a | 5,531 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.c4563c9 | 2026-04-19 | c4563c9 | 5,704 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5531 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
dembrandt/dembrandt-skills · 183 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nzcenjsjx2bl23l2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73f12445e289179c05f0521319a22d925cbf814b012d29bca421acf17793407b
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.