make-artifact SKILL.md skillA

make-artifact from checkpickerupper/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/make-artifact@git:20261021.98508ae

Pins git:20261021.98508ae in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
checkpickerupper/skills
Path
skills/in-progress/make-artifact/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261021.98508ae, committed Oct 21, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 30, 2026
Size
14,498 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Make, revise, or republish a claude.ai Artifact of any kind: report, audit, decision page, dashboard, tracker, form, tool, game, diagram, deck, or doc. Triggers: 'make an artifact', 'publish this as a page', 'turn this into an artifact', 'build a dashboard', 'update the artifact', and every revision after the reader says a page is too long, too thin, too technical, or not something they can act on. Owns the reader's job, sourced facts, information density, revision without overcorrection, and…

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

# Make an Artifact

This skill owns what goes on the page and the loop around publishing it. The
page contract (format, title, tokens, themes, libraries, storage, size) belongs
to the Artifact tool's `quickstart`, `artifact-design`, and
`artifact-capabilities`. Follow them as the authority and use this skill for
everything they leave to judgment.

## 1. Name the job

<what-to-do>
Before writing a file, write one sentence: "<reader> opens this to <job>."
Pick the job from the table. It sets the first screen and where records live.

| Job | First screen shows | Below it | Records live in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decide | the choice being made and the recommendation | each option: what it costs, what it unblocks, its evidence | page source |
| Plan (spec, port, migration, roadmap) | what is missing: each gap between today and the goal, stated as a fact and grouped by what it stops | the build order as numbered steps, each ending in something the reader can try; then the decisions the reader owns; acceptance detail last | page source |
| Understand (report, audit, explainer, diagram) | the answer or finding in one sentence | one scannable unit per item, then detail | page source |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add checkpickerupper/skills/make-artifact@sha256:7b3d56099d12cbe9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.98508ae, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_pqqcoauyh2vgoddy.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pqqcoauyh2vgoddy)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 4 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261021.98508ae latest2026-10-21 98508ae 14,498 BA view · diff
git:20261014.5083e942026-10-14 5083e94 14,408 BA view · diff
git:20261012.a3d5d522026-10-12 a3d5d52 14,381 BA view · diff
git:20261012.b3d3d262026-10-12 b3d3d26 13,455 BA view · diff
git:20260930.db199ec2026-09-30 db199ec 7,612 BA view · diff
git:20260930.a6102ed2026-09-30 a6102ed 6,616 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14498 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

GitHub

checkpickerupper/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pqqcoauyh2vgoddy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=checkpickerupper/skills/make-artifact
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7b3d56099d12cbe980b1709b7e0416dd2f59a397962a1f1f43cb48c6ba79f97f

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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