gentle-ai-tui-design SKILL.md skillA
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gentle-ai-tui-design from gentleman-programming/gentle-shell is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai-tui-design@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gentleman-programming/gentle-shell
- Path
skills/tui-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Nov 3, 2026
- Size
- 3,427 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,084
- License
- MIT
Trigger: terminal UI design, TUI redesign, Gentle Shell look, IDE in a terminal, sidebar/status bar polish, critique TUI. Design, critique and refine terminal UIs with visual proof.
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
## Activation Contract Use for designing, reviewing or refining a terminal interface (panels, rails, status bars, cards, prompts), especially Gentle Shell. The target feel is an IDE inside a terminal: dense, calm, developer-first, never a costume of retro TUI chrome. Not for web pages (use `gentle-design`). ## Hard Rules - Never judge a terminal UI from code or memory: capture it (`references/visual-loop.md`) and look at the PNG before and after every change. - Read `references/terminal-craft.md` before any UI edit; it is the floor, not a suggestion. - Operate mode: familiarity beats expression. Use IDE vocabulary (panes, tree, tabs, status bar, command palette); the brand lives in palette, density and one signature move. - Every row costs. Hierarchy comes from color role, weight and alignment, never from blank rows or nested boxes. - Say each fact once per screen. Data shown in the header never repeats in a panel. - One command, one target. Refinement preserves the system; redesign replaces it. Never polish a look being thrown away. - Rendering stays cheap: no I/O or recomputation in render paths, cache keyed on everything that changes output (style, width, theme). …
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How to install
mdr add gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai-tui-design@sha256:0b66e4a72989736aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 3, 2026.
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 (3427 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
gentleman-programming/gentle-shell · 2,084 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vz5qtowsfjjxs4ot GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gentleman-programming/gentle-shell/gentle-ai-tui-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0b66e4a72989736a5a4e964ff46f64d2e4b0c2ddae9a93e1f81a2433d89de32b
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