point-rendering-and-clustering SKILL.md skillA

point-rendering-and-clustering from yuiseki/map-from-scratch is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yuiseki/map-from-scratch/point-rendering-and-clustering@git:20261030.e7cf6b3

Pins git:20261030.e7cf6b3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yuiseki/map-from-scratch
Path
.agents/skills/point-rendering-and-clustering/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261030.e7cf6b3, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 26, 2026
Size
23,758 bytes
Repository stars
24
License
GPL-3.0

How map engines draw many point features (markers, circles, dots, point clouds) and reduce them (clustering, aggregation, thinning, sampling, point budgets), with the trade-offs and numbers they recorded. Load it when a map-from-scratch request has thousands or more points, POIs, markers, vehicles or LiDAR/point clouds, asks for clusters, hexbins, grids or heatmaps, says "show every point" or "points must not overlap", or when choosing how to draw a circle marker, hide or filter points, or cap…

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

# Point rendering and clustering

A point layer is cheap per feature and expensive in bulk. Engines kept
finding the same four costs: a collision or placement step run for every
symbol whether or not anything can be culled; a draw call, path or object
per point; fragments, which grow with marker radius, overlap and device
pixel ratio; and objects or buffers rebuilt when only a few values changed.
The reductions (clusters, aggregates, samples, budgets) each lose something
different: counts, completeness or stability under zoom. This skill
collects what 27 engines decided. Per-engine detail, with more numbers, is in
[references/engines.md](references/engines.md). The local examples already
cover additive density (04), points that appear over time (03) and a few
thousand hoverable circles (07); `skills/map-from-scratch/references/patterns.md`
has the stride and id-picking patterns, which are not repeated here.

## Decide first: is overlap allowed, and must every point be visible?

Write the answer into `spec.yaml` `architecture_selection.not_doing`
before any code. It selects the whole design:

| The request says | Choose | Loses |
| --- | --- | --- |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yuiseki/map-from-scratch/point-rendering-and-clustering@sha256:0652d6056fe1533b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.e7cf6b3, 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

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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 (23758 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

yuiseki/map-from-scratch · 24 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uhy2vtqfq6ylxd4q
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yuiseki/map-from-scratch/point-rendering-and-clustering
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0652d6056fe1533b29560e8199f06a107a4fb448f5ff5fe87930991220b3659a

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