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design-cli-output from pjt222/agent-almanac is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/design-cli-output@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pjt222/agent-almanac
- Path
i18n/caveman-lite/skills/design-cli-output/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 5, 2026
- Size
- 15,002 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Design terminal output for a CLI tool with chalk colors, Unicode glyphs, multiple verbosity levels (human, verbose, quiet, JSON), and consistent voice rules. Covers color palette selection, status indicator design, reporter function architecture, ceremony/narrative output variants, and cross-terminal compatibility. Use when building a new CLI reporter module, adding warm narrative output to an existing tool, standardizing output across multiple commands, or designing machine-readable JSON…
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
# Design CLI Output Design consistent, multi-level terminal output for a command-line tool. ## When to Use - Building a new reporter module for a CLI tool - Adding warm or narrative output alongside standard transactional output - Standardizing output format across multiple commands - Designing JSON machine output parallel to human-readable output - Choosing colors, glyphs, and verbosity levels for a new terminal tool ## Inputs - **Required**: CLI tool name and primary audience (developers, operators, end users) - **Required**: Commands that need output formatting - **Optional**: Whether a "ceremony" or narrative output variant is desired - **Optional**: Branding constraints (color palette, tone) ## Procedure ### Step 1: Define the Color Palette Use chalk to create a named palette object. **Load chalk behind a no-color fallback.** The fallback has to stand in for every call shape the palette uses, which is more than passing strings through: ```javascript // A factory returns a *function*; a direct style returns a string. Enumerate // this list against the installed chalk, not from memory — chalk 6 added the …
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How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/design-cli-output@sha256:aef3695a79bb615dThe 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 5 versions of this file, between Jun 5, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 18 days.
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-08-17 | a784899 | 15,002 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-07-30 | 6bb2e1f | 14,973 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-07-30 | 2630b6e | 14,973 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-07-30 | 49dc591 | 14,880 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-06-05 | 33b561c | 10,700 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
pjt222/agent-almanac · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_y43weq55zraezjdm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pjt222/agent-almanac/design-cli-output GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aef3695a79bb615d8cfc495d7e2c6e777f27ae7069252796dfda3465808dc9f6
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