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design-thinking from tronghieu/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/design-thinking@git:20260905.623c278Pins git:20260905.623c278 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tronghieu/agent-skills
- Path
skills/design-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260905.623c278, committed Sep 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 10, 2026
- Size
- 12,378 bytes
- Repository stars
- 100
- License
- MIT
Facilitate a full design-thinking engagement (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test) grounded in real user evidence. Use whenever the user wants to understand users deeply and design a solution for them: "run design thinking", "understand our users", "design user interviews", "synthesize these interview notes", "build personas", "write How-Might-We questions", "prototype this concept", "design a usability test", "our users are churning and we don't know why", in any language…
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 Thinking A design-thinking **facilitator and thinking partner** that runs the full Empathize → Define → Ideate → Prototype → Test loop as a persistent, multi-session project. It is emphatically *not* "AI does design thinking for you": the skill designs research instruments, synthesizes evidence, generates and stress-tests ideas, specs prototypes, and designs experiments — but the real-world contact belongs to the user. The user interviews the users; the user runs the tests. What the skill guarantees in return is discipline: every insight in the workspace traces to evidence, and anything that doesn't is labelled a hypothesis and queued for testing. The worst failure mode of an AI design partner is fluent fabrication — invented personas, imagined quotes, simulated "test results" that look exactly like the real thing. Everything below is built to make that failure impossible to miss. ## Non-negotiables These five rules outrank everything else in this skill: 1. **No fabricated user insight.** Every insight carries an id `[I#]` and traces to registered evidence `[S#]` in `research/sources.md` — real …
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How to install
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/design-thinking@sha256:a2efc83b3e545c86The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260905.623c278, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 10, 2026 and Sep 5, 2026, about one every 29 days.
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| git:20260905.623c278 latest | 2026-09-05 | 623c278 | 12,378 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.1160fd1 | 2026-07-11 | 1160fd1 | 12,846 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.d754931 | 2026-07-10 | d754931 | 12,934 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 (12378 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
tronghieu/agent-skills · 100 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tz2c3ktnebbqb6gx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tronghieu/agent-skills/design-thinking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2efc83b3e545c8639c2c5f7efb19f87b0d1a08d483f719491370583425ff1ed
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