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editorial-illustrations from huytieu/cog-second-brain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add huytieu/cog-second-brain/editorial-illustrations@git:20261023.65f43f1

Pins git:20261023.65f43f1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: huytieu/cog-second-brain
Path: .claude/skills/editorial-illustrations/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261023.65f43f1, committed Oct 23, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 27, 2026
Size: 10,037 bytes
Repository stars: 1,350
License: MIT

Generate meaning-carrying editorial data-illustrations in the monotykamary / Linear aesthetic (near-black grayscale, Inter display + mono labels, hairline framed figures) with a single coral accent. This is a GENERATIVE GUIDE, not a template gallery: it teaches the "claim -> geometry" method so any session can invent the RIGHT figure for what a post actually argues, then render it as a self-contained, theme-aware, reduced-motion-safe HTML/SVG figure. Use when writing/illustrating a blog post…

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

# Editorial illustrations — claim → geometry

The look you want (monotykamary.com, linear.app/now) is not a chart library. It is
a **discipline**: every figure is a single argument rendered as geometry, framed in
a hairline box, captioned in mono uppercase with the *meaning*, drawn in grayscale
with exactly one accent. Get the discipline right and any shape reads as "house."
Copy templates blindly and it reads as slop.

**Do not reach for a fixed set of charts.** Reach for the method below and build the
figure this specific sentence needs. The six worked examples in
`references/worked-examples.md` are proof the method generalizes, not a menu.

## The core move

> Take the one sentence the figure must prove. Find that sentence's *structure*.
> Render the structure so the reader believes the sentence before reading it.

The caption is the thesis, written first. If you can't state the figure's claim in
one sentence, you don't have a figure yet, you have decoration. Stop.

## Method (run this every time)

1. **Write the claim.** One declarative sentence. This becomes the `<figcaption>`
   verbatim. Example: "Nothing is billable until work crosses the delivery boundary."
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add huytieu/cog-second-brain/editorial-illustrations@sha256:6109607dc78f04cd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.65f43f1, 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 2 versions of this file, between Jul 27, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 88 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261023.65f43f1 latest	2026-10-23	65f43f1	10,037 B	A	view · diff
git:20260727.74a0cf7	2026-07-27	74a0cf7	9,719 B	A	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 (10037 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

huytieu/cog-second-brain · 1,350 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qwzxhj5upq2fkumh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=huytieu/cog-second-brain/editorial-illustrations
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6109607dc78f04cd5ac6fbb405783ca90c8b56417c756bfc91ff124cb2470856

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