autonomous-variations SKILL.md skillA

autonomous-variations from eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills/autonomous-variations@git:20261103.5dc815c

Pins git:20261103.5dc815c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills
Path
autonomous-variations/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261103.5dc815c, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 12, 2026
Size
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Repository stars
3
License
none declared

Autonomous: Variations. Run variation labs unsupervised for one part of a product: exactly the count asked for, genuinely different ideas plus today's version as a baseline, in real context with real content, one lab per decision with its own worktree, branch and port. Covers the shared lab conventions (?v=, [ and ], a switcher pill, ?motion=off, ?embed=1, manifest.json, stills), every variation finished at desktop, tablet, phone and reduced motion, headless checks and contact sheets before…

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

# Autonomous: Variations

Turn "show me N ways to do X" into a set the user can judge in minutes, and a pick that ships
without rework. Each decision gets a lab: one part of the product, shown in its real context, with N
genuinely different variations and today's version, built to shared conventions so one page can
review every lab and the pick ports verbatim. The bar: the user steps through the lab with `[` and
`]` at any size, with motion on or off, and decides without hitting anything broken, cramped or
invented.

Building inside the real product follows
[`autonomous-prototypes`](../autonomous-prototypes/SKILL.md) (in Code OSS a lab is a set of
Component Explorer fixtures or a setting enum; the rules here still apply). Videos of the variations
use the variant matrix profile in [`autonomous-demos`](../autonomous-demos/SKILL.md). Overnight runs
with many labs also follow [`autonomous-runs`](../autonomous-runs/SKILL.md). Web gotchas
(CSS leaking between pieces, syncing from a working tree, local servers without CORS) are in
[`labs-and-pages.md`](../autonomous-runs/references/labs-and-pages.md) in autonomous-runs.

## Standing rules
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills/autonomous-variations@sha256:3ad99212e683cd93

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.5dc815c, 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 6 versions of this file, between Oct 12, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (15080 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

eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills · 3 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zscodmvxbagoaluq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills/autonomous-variations
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ad99212e683cd93e3e5a85a14ba99ef02c76721b6690a9b8e40faf18590deb9

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