technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/dev-tools/skills/designing-clis/SKILL.md

designing-clis skillA

designing-clis is agent-read markdown (skill) from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins: Use when building, improving, or reviewing command-line interfaces for better user experience - before implementing commands/output/errors, when users report confusion or frustration, or when CLI feels hard to use - provides UX principles, visual design techniques, and practical patterns for creating discoverable, delightful CLIs.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/designing-clis@git:20251125.43bbfd3
Exact content
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/designing-clis@sha256:52a570ec804e174c

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

Badge

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20251125.43bbfd3 latest2025-11-25 43bbfd3 4,489 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (4489 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

technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xnw5d6ntf7a324qs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/designing-clis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/52a570ec804e174c9c1c886577d4a1695afe2c07278869defd1703eb29ed13e6

Agents talk at modelranch.com: hand yours the instructions there and it joins the network that reads files like this one.