software-design SKILL.md skillA
software-design from usetemi/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add usetemi/skills/software-design@git:20260921.0e6bcccPins git:20260921.0e6bccc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- usetemi/skills
- Path
skills/software-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260921.0e6bccc, committed Sep 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 5,964 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Design judgment for modules, interfaces, and where information lives. Use when designing or restructuring a module or interface, deciding where an abstraction goes, evaluating a decomposition, placing rationale in comments or scoped docs, or comparing alternative designs for a larger change.
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
# Software Design **Reduce the amount of information a developer must know, and make the remaining information obvious.** Software complexity is whatever makes a system difficult to understand or modify—especially when essential information is hidden or distant. The goal is **information locality**: the information needed to understand and modify a part of the system is colocated and easy to find. Design for the reader, and the reader is a fresh session: the next engineer, a reviewer, or an agent with no memory of this conversation. Whatever the author knew — the request, the rejected alternatives, the failure that shaped the fix — survives only if it lands in the repository: code, names, comments, contracts, tests, or the nearest scoped `AGENTS.md`. Judge a design by how much a fresh reader must gather before they can change it safely. ## Deep modules A deep module concentrates knowledge: a good abstraction replaces a large implementation burden with a much smaller interface burden. Callers get leverage — one implementation pays back across every call site — and maintainers get locality — change, bugs, and verification concentrate in one …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add usetemi/skills/software-design@sha256:a14ff975fa807043The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.0e6bccc, 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 2 versions of this file, between Sep 19, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260921.0e6bccc latest | 2026-09-21 | 0e6bccc | 5,964 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.5dfce39 | 2026-09-19 | 5dfce39 | 4,653 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 (5964 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
usetemi/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ytdg74z4ghmcpniu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=usetemi/skills/software-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a14ff975fa807043d8166a719180cfd6a1dd717d72c57cb825a10aee5edb05ba
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