form-design SKILL.md skillA
form-design 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/form-design@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/form-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261001.b05848a, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 8,323 bytes
- Repository stars
- 183
- License
- MIT
Helper text, placeholders, validation and submit behaviour. Use when designing or reviewing a form, input field or data entry UI.
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
# Form Design
Forms are where users give the product data. Every unnecessary obstacle between the user and a completed form is a failure. The design goal is to make correct input easy and incorrect input obvious — before the user submits.
---
## The Three Guidance Layers
Each layer serves a distinct purpose. Do not collapse them.
### Layer 1 — Helper Text
Explains *what* to enter. Appears below the input, always visible, in small secondary text.
```
Email address
[ ]
Use the email you signed up with.
```
- Write in plain language from the user's perspective
- Keep it to one sentence — if you need more, the field is too complex or misnamed
- Do not repeat the label ("Enter your email" below a label that says "Email" is redundant)
- Helper text is not a replacement for a label — the label is still required
### Layer 2 — Placeholder
Shows the *format* or an example value. Appears inside the input, disappears on typing.
```
[jane@example.com ]
```
- Use a realistic example, not a description: `+358 40 123 4567` not `Enter phone number`
- Never use placeholder as a label — it disappears and leaves the user without context
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/form-design@sha256:6e3d60dc8006982dThe 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_osbsnfsdtpkdggm7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 55 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261001.b05848a latest | 2026-10-01 | b05848a | 8,323 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.978da92 | 2026-09-25 | 978da92 | 8,518 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.db4fb5d | 2026-04-19 | db4fb5d | 7,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.7df44cc | 2026-04-19 | 7df44cc | 7,753 B | A | view |
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 (8323 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
dembrandt/dembrandt-skills · 183 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_osbsnfsdtpkdggm7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/form-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6e3d60dc8006982d1490958c02813437347191b8b504fe229afa03e9289554d6
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