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Skinning a card
A skin replaces the editor of an existing card without touching what it computes.
What a skin is for
Some cards have parameters that are easier to set on a picture than in a list: a montage, a frequency band, a time window. A skin gives that card a custom editor while leaving the card, its validation and its output untouched.
A skin cannot change what a card computes. It changes how
you set the parameters, nothing else. That separation is deliberate: a visual
faceplate should never silently alter a result.
Declaring one
A skin is a card manifest with role: "skin", a
targets list naming the cards it applies to, and a
ui.richEditor block pointing at its HTML.
Installing
Skins install like cards, into the same user directory, and are distributed through the marketplace under the skin type.