visual-direction SKILL.md skillB
visual-direction 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/visual-direction@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/communications/visual-direction/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 4,028 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- CC0-1.0
Turn a storyboard into a concrete visual contract — layout, type scale, color, spacing, and asset rules (USWDS-aligned where federal) — that a renderer can follow to produce an accessible, on-brand artifact.
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: Visual Direction ## Summary Given a storyboard from [`narrative-architect`](../narrative-architect/SKILL.md), produce a **visual contract**: the concrete layout, type scale, color roles, spacing, and asset rules a renderer follows. For federal artifacts, align to USWDS tokens. The contract is deterministic enough that `one-pager`/`slide-deck` can render without re-deciding design. ## When to Use - You have a storyboard and need the look-and-feel pinned before rendering. - Multiple renderers/formats must stay visually consistent. ## When NOT to Use - No storyboard yet (run `narrative-architect`). - You're building a full interactive site (see the `uswds-*` skills). ## Prerequisites - A storyboard (beats + hierarchy) and the brief's constraints (brand, a11y). ## Procedure 1. **Grid & layout** — pick a layout per beat that reflects its hierarchy (primary beats get dominant space). 2. **Type scale** — heading/body/caption sizes with a clear ratio; enough contrast for the primary message to dominate. 3. **Color roles** — background, text, accent, and semantic colors as named roles (not one-off hex). USWDS tokens where federal. All text/background pairs …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/visual-direction@sha256:2435aff198cca064The 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.
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 (4028 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_od75y2cjmtzqqr7n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/visual-direction GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2435aff198cca06446764aaa91d2dcbec73410cab9e9cd664c4c1beca9580dc4
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