cli-ux SKILL.md skillA
cli-ux from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/cli-ux@git:20260822.a6cb86fPins git:20260822.a6cb86f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
cli-ux/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260822.a6cb86f, committed Aug 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 14,504 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Design, implement, or review a command-line interface when its user-facing command contract, interaction behavior, automation output, credentials, or mutation safety is the primary concern. For a bounded CLI mismatch or bug, apply only the relevant contract guidance; do not expand it into a full CLI or authentication redesign.
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
# CLI UX Design one CLI with two deliberate modes: - optimize interactive use for discoverability, concise defaults, and safe recovery; - optimize automated use for predictability, bounded context, explicit contracts, and defense in depth. Keep the CLI self-contained. Do not require an MCP server or companion agent skill. Make the installed CLI capable of describing and safely exercising its own exact-version contract. Apply this skill proportionally. The requested CLI outcome and concrete risks created by the changed command define the blocking criteria. The remaining sections are design options and review lenses, not a demand to redesign every CLI surface. Stop when the named contract is corrected and focused process or contract tests prove it; report adjacent improvements as follow-ups. ## Define one typed command contract For a new CLI or a command family whose contract is duplicated across surfaces, prefer modeling each command once in a checked-in, versioned registry. Derive these surfaces from it where practical: - parsing and validation; - human-readable help and examples; - machine-readable `schema` or `describe` output; - request construction; …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/cli-ux@sha256:4c187e3530c226d0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260822.a6cb86f, 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_vqqpjju3aihrk6tk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 6, 2026 and Aug 22, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260822.a6cb86f latest | 2026-08-22 | a6cb86f | 14,504 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.79c3a6b | 2026-08-11 | 79c3a6b | 14,525 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.e597cb4 | 2026-08-06 | e597cb4 | 10,798 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 (14504 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vqqpjju3aihrk6tk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/cli-ux GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4c187e3530c226d065d07ea69f4db504a42ec354742ffae7c93c69094af23d7c
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.