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design-rationale skillA

design-rationale is agent-read markdown (skill) from ommakes/skills: Help designers articulate the cognitive science, behavioral psychology, and platform standards behind their design decisions. Use this skill when a designer needs to explain why they made a decision in a critique, design review, or stakeholder meeting. Also use when auditing a screen for principle alignment, preparing for pushback, or evaluating whether a decision is truly irreversible. Trigger on phrases like: "how do I explain this decision", "what principle applies here", "help me defend this.

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 ommakes/skills/design-rationale@v1.1.0
Exact content
mdr add ommakes/skills/design-rationale@sha256:c83d98d47b031476

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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v1.1.0 latest2026-07-23 8e99c76 13,540 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-12 5bc62dc 13,169 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 (13540 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

ommakes/skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yykgyrqabrqq365t
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ommakes/skills/design-rationale
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c83d98d47b031476a968245e678e70bcbdf0f7e9b26f35c2ec09a6a359195c6b

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