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Build and update a Mojo language cheat sheet in this folder. Use when editing a card's content, adding a card, or rebuilding its PDF/PNG/SVG outputs.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/modular/modular/blob/HEAD/mojo/docs/cheatsheet-tooling/SKILL.md

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Update a Mojo cheat sheet

One-page reference cards for the Mojo language, rendered from HTML sources to PDF, PNG, and SVG (light + dark). Use this skill to update an existing card or add a new one.

Where things are

  • src/body-<topic>.html — the content of one card; this is what you edit.
  • src/_head.html, src/_foot.html — shared CSS, palette, header.
  • bin/build.py — assembles a card and renders all formats. It discovers cards from the body files present; there is no card list to edit.
  • dist/ — produced files. Generated; never edit by hand.

Workflow

  1. Anchor to the reference. Every behavioral claim on a card must match the Mojo reference docs under mojo/docs/reference/, or a short program you compile to confirm it. Do not rely on memory or older syntax.

  2. One card at a time.

  3. Edit the source, never the output. Change src/body-<topic>.html.

  4. A card's title, subtitle, and optional layout live in comment lines at the top of its body file:

    <!-- title: ... -->
<!-- subtitle: ... -->
<!-- layout: portrait | landscape -->   # optional; default portrait

    portrait is 2 columns / ~900px; landscape is 3 columns / ~1100px. Fine-tune with <!-- columns: N --> and <!-- width: W -->.

  5. Rebuild and look: python3 bin/build.py <topic>, then open dist/mojo-cheat-sheet-<topic>-light.png.

  6. Compiler-check new claims with a tiny snippet before asserting them.

  7. Discuss restructuring a card or adding a new one before doing it.

Conventions

  • Each card stands alone. No cross-references between cards.
  • One space before a trailing # comment; keep all trailing comments.
  • No em-dashes in prose.
  • Keep code lines short enough not to wrap.
  • Current Mojo syntax only: def (no fn), comptime (not alias), read/mut/out/var/ref conventions, t"..." template strings.
  • The legend on each card is a fixed full palette, identical across all cards; it is generated by the build, not maintained by hand.

Build everything

python3 bin/build.py all rebuilds every card present and the combined PDFs. The build shrinks SVGs with svgo so they stay under the repo's 2 MB file cap.

Required tools

See README.md.