variant SKILL.md skillA
variant from transitive-bullshit/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/variant@git:20261011.ef64499Pins git:20261011.ef64499 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- transitive-bullshit/skills
- Path
provenance/upstream/variant/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261011.ef64499, committed Oct 11, 2026
- Size
- 6,825 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Builds multiple variants of a component you're working on and helps you iterate and pick one.
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
# Variants This skill takes one described piece of UI and builds three versions that differ on purpose. They go behind a picker in the real page, so you can flip between them and choose. It produces candidates and never ranks them. Reviewing existing UI is `interface-review` and `better-interface`, stress testing one component is `break` and working through a component's states is `state-machine`. ## Different answers, not different tints Each variant is a different answer to the same brief, on an axis this collection owns: | Axis | Owner | What varies | | --- | --- | --- | | Structure | `better-layout` | Grouping, order, column count, what collapses | | Density | `better-layout` | Spacing scale, how much fits | | Emphasis | `better-colors` | Where filled color goes, what recedes | | Type | `better-typography` | Scale steps, weight contrast, measure | | Voice | `better-writing` | Labels, tone, how much copy | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/variant@sha256:2d8eef43768e01d7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.ef64499, 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_o4bxgqb54cuilbpr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 11, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6825 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
transitive-bullshit/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o4bxgqb54cuilbpr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=transitive-bullshit/skills/variant GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2d8eef43768e01d7fcec5ec2fd56dcfc453904b31a23fe8ea53170eb828d24ea
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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