td-dat-family SKILL.md skillA

td-dat-family from touchdesigner/tdmcpskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-dat-family@git:20260616.c15db43

Pins git:20260616.c15db43 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
touchdesigner/tdmcpskills
Path
skills/td-dat-family/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260616.c15db43, committed Jun 16, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 24, 2026
Size
6,199 bytes
Repository stars
39
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

DAT operations — table data, Python callbacks, parameter execute, CHOP execute. Use when creating or populating any DAT.

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

# DAT Scripts

Python scripts, callbacks, and table data in TouchDesigner DAT operators.

## DAT Types

- `textDAT` — text content: Python scripts, GLSL code, JSON, plain text. Set `language` parameter to match content (`python`, `glsl`, etc.)
- `tableDAT` — row/column table data (cells)
- `parameterexecuteDAT` — fires callbacks on parameter changes
- `chopexecuteDAT` — fires callbacks on CHOP value/channel changes
- `datexecuteDAT` — fires callbacks on DAT content changes
- `panelexecuteDAT` — fires callbacks on panel events (click, hover, etc.)
- `scriptDAT` — programmable DAT with onCook callback

## Setting DAT Content

Via MCP: `set_dat_content(path, text=...)` for text, `set_dat_content(path, rows=[[...]])` for table data (array of row arrays).

Always set `language` parameter on textDATs — defaults to `plain` which loses syntax highlighting and error checking.

## Callback DATs

Each callback DAT has a dedicated **source-reference par** that must be set. Without it, the DAT fires no callbacks and raises no error — silently inert. `fromop` is not the source; it's just where `op()` expressions evaluate.

- `chopexecuteDAT` → `chop` par
- `datexecuteDAT` → `dat` par
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-dat-family@sha256:ec7bf7bcbb096905

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260616.c15db43, 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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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 24, 2026 and Jun 16, 2026, about one every 13 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.

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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 (6199 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

touchdesigner/tdmcpskills · 39 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vmsy5rifk6az4dlf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-dat-family
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ec7bf7bcbb096905a08a88f236f3b5bc269ff9fe36124984022dfd39b44e268b

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