hci-cli-ux SKILL.md skillA
hci-cli-ux from mehranqadirian/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mehranqadirian/skills/hci-cli-ux@git:20261104.81fe8aaPins git:20261104.81fe8aa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mehranqadirian/skills
- Path
hci/hci-cli-ux/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261104.81fe8aa, committed Nov 4, 2026
- Size
- 4,268 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- none declared
Designs and reviews the user experience of command-line tools. Use whenever the user builds or improves a CLI, script with options, or terminal tool and cares about help text, flags and subcommands, error messages, exit codes, progress output, colors, prompts and confirmations, JSON output, piping, or beginner friendliness, even if they only say "my script is hard to use". Tests a real command with a script that checks help, bad options, version, ANSI codes and stdin behavior.
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
# hci-cli-ux
A command-line tool is a user interface for people and for other programs. This skill applies HCI principles to it: clear help, predictable flags, human errors, safe actions and machine-friendly output.
```
hci-cli-ux/
├── SKILL.md
├── scripts/
│ └── check_cli_ux.py runs --help, --version, a bad option and no arguments; checks the experience
└── references/
└── cli-guidelines.md names, help, output, errors, interactivity, config, accessibility, testing
```
## When to use
- Designing a new tool, subcommands or flags
- Improving help text and error messages
- A tool is confusing for beginners or awkward in pipelines and scripts
- Adding progress, colors, prompts, confirmation, `--dry-run` or `--json`
- Reviewing exit codes and stdout versus stderr behavior
## Workflow
1. **Understand the users and uses**: who runs it (beginner, expert, other programs), how often, interactively or in scripts, on which OS.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mehranqadirian/skills/hci-cli-ux@sha256:116d889807ecebfaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.81fe8aa, 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_qhnupmn75hbrzw2d)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 4, 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 (4268 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
mehranqadirian/skills · 13 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qhnupmn75hbrzw2d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mehranqadirian/skills/hci-cli-ux GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/116d889807ecebfa144bc2e9c0d8129ab87bf54e048746ca181c4b108086f502
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.
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