software-design skillA
software-design is agent-read markdown (skill) from usetemi/skills: 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..
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.
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 …
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How to install
mdr add usetemi/skills/software-design@git:20260921.0e6bcccmdr add usetemi/skills/software-design@sha256:a14ff975fa807043Pin 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
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| 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
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- 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
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Source
usetemi/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-21 · 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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