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design-cli-output skillA

design-cli-output is agent-read markdown (skill) from pjt222/agent-almanac: 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 alongs.

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 pjt222/agent-almanac/design-cli-output@v1.0
Exact content
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/design-cli-output@sha256:aef3695a79bb615d

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.

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Versions

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v1.0 latest2026-08-17 a784899 15,002 BA view · diff
v1.02026-07-30 6bb2e1f 14,973 BA view · diff
v1.02026-07-30 2630b6e 14,973 BA view · diff
v1.02026-07-30 49dc591 14,880 BA view · diff
v1.02026-06-05 33b561c 10,700 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 (15002 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

pjt222/agent-almanac · 33 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · 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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