design-within-what-exists SKILL.md skillA
design-within-what-exists from tonygorb/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tonygorb/skills/design-within-what-exists@git:20261013.8f735abPins git:20261013.8f735ab in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tonygorb/skills
- Path
skills/design-within-what-exists/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261013.8f735ab, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 13, 2026
- Size
- 1,242 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Change a screen with the patterns it already has, not new ones. Use when the user says "redesign this", "restyle this page", "add a new state" or "make it match the rest".
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 within what exists Read what's already there, reuse it, and only then design what's missing. ## Steps 1. Open the live screen first, at the size where it's used most. 2. List what it already uses: buttons, spacing, type, colours, empty and error states. 3. Reuse before you invent. If something new is needed, name it and say why. 4. Show one or two options and let the user pick before building. If the structure itself needs rethinking, run `concept-lab` instead. 5. Build only the option that was picked. ## Before it's done - Compare the new screen side by side with its neighbours. - Remove every option and leftover you made along the way. ## Never - Never change a shared colour or size for one screen. - Never hide anything important behind hover only. ## What to hand back The finished screen, what you reused, and anything new with the reason for it.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tonygorb/skills/design-within-what-exists@sha256:c8efe355fa253199The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.8f735ab, 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_r4xnmz7txy7ceyad)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 13, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261013.8f735ab latest | 2026-10-13 | 8f735ab | 1,242 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.bc9e437 | 2026-10-13 | bc9e437 | 1,170 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 (1242 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
tonygorb/skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_r4xnmz7txy7ceyad GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tonygorb/skills/design-within-what-exists GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c8efe355fa253199dc7368b30c5048b0721582c96e347f9f8378d58b8c514d85
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.