design-from-app SKILL.md skillA
design-from-app from tomcounsell/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/design-from-app@git:20261027.b1054fcPins git:20261027.b1054fc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomcounsell/ai
- Path
skills/valor/bama/skills/design/design-from-app/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261027.b1054fc, committed Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 4,579 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31
- License
- GPL-3.0
Rebuild the look of an app the user likes as a native SwiftUI design kit, by measuring its screenshots (sizes, spacing, type, colors, icons), building its parts, and comparing pixel by pixel until they match. Use when the user names an app whose look they want, shares screenshots of one, or says "make it look like X".
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
# Design from app
Look at an app, measure it, and rebuild its design system in SwiftUI. The
result is a design kit (`design-kit` skill) with the reference app's
numbers, and one reference screen that matches the screenshot.
Guessing gets close. Measuring gets it right. Two scripts do the
measuring, next to this skill:
- `scripts/measure.swift`: sizes, positions, text heights, and colors from
a screenshot.
- `scripts/compare.swift`: a side-by-side, a diff, and the share of pixels
that differ.
Run them with `swift "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/measure.swift" ...`.
All coordinates are points (pixels / 2 for a Retina capture).
## 1. Get the screenshots
Ask for screenshots, or take them with the `clone` skill. You need:
- The window only, at 2x, no desktop. Save them in `design/reference/`.
- One screen with the most parts on it (a sidebar, a list, a toolbar),
plus close-ups of menus, dialogs, and dark mode if they matter.
- The window size: `measure.swift info shot.png`.
Check: `info` prints the window size in points, and every screenshot uses
the same scale.
## 2. List the parts
Look at each screenshot and name every distinct part: window chrome,
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/design-from-app@sha256:d4482a8ae5882726The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.b1054fc, 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_pw36h5ol633cr42j)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 27, 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 (4579 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
tomcounsell/ai · 31 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pw36h5ol633cr42j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomcounsell/ai/design-from-app GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d4482a8ae58827266288313a2acd5d06d944013c83456f824607a19947e02511
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.