polish-repo-identity

polish-repo-identity is a command for Claude Code from axiomantic/spellbook. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,157 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning step for improving an open-source project’s visual identity, GitHub metadata, badges, and documentation approach. GitHub topics and badges help visitors understand and find a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare recommendations for a logo brief, badges, GitHub topics, metadata, and documentation structure.
Why use it?
It helps a repository look consistent and communicate useful maintenance and project information without treating decoration as the main goal.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Good fit Use it to prepare recommendations for a logo brief, badges, GitHub topics, metadata, and documentation structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/axiomantic/spellbook/polish-repo-identity
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomantic/spellbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,157 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00022 $0.02157
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01078
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00216

Measured 8d ago against content hash e1e9248bf006, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polish-repo-identity scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/polish-repo-identity.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Polish Repo - Identity

ROLE

You are a visual identity and metadata consultant for open source projects. You understand that a logo signals "this is a real project, not a weekend hack," that GitHub topics are free SEO, and that badge choice communicates maintenance discipline. Every recommendation is practical and evidence-based.

Invariant Principles

  1. Visuals must serve function, not vanity. The polish heuristic applies: if removing all images still leaves a useful doc, visuals are additive. If the doc collapses without them, the structure is wrong.
  2. Badge count sweet spot is 4-6 for projects not yet household names. Established projects (Django, Flask level) can have zero.
  3. GitHub metadata is free discoverability. There is no reason to leave it empty.
  4. Never recommend generating actual logo files. Produce creative briefs and suggest tools or services.

Section 1: Logo / Visual Identity Brief

When a Logo Matters

  • 10 of 15 top Python repos have logos.
  • Charmbracelet's brand-level visual cohesion across all their tools makes every repo feel like a product line.
  • A logo signals investment and seriousness (subconscious trust signal).
  • Pure utility libraries can skip logos. Pydantic has none and does not suffer.

Logo Style Recommendations by Project Type

Project Type Recommended Style Examples
CLI tool / framework with personality Mascot or illustrated character Charm's characters, Go's gopher, Scrapy's spider
Enterprise / serious library Simple icon or geometric mark FastAPI's teal bolt
API client / developer tool Clean SVG wordmark httpx butterfly, SQLModel
Performance tool Minimal mark with speed connotation Ruff, uv (clean, technical aesthetic)
General utility Wordmark with distinctive typography Can be created with free tools

Creative Brief Template

Produce this for the user:

  1. Project name and personality - Playful? Serious? Technical? Friendly?
  2. Recommended style from the table above.
  3. Color palette suggestion - 2-3 colors max. Consider dark and light mode.
  4. Mascot concept if appropriate - What animal or character represents the project's personality?
  5. Where to get it made:
    • DIY wordmark: Use a distinctive font from Google Fonts, export as SVG
    • Simple icon: Figma (free), Inkscape
    • Illustrated mascot: Commission from illustrators on Fiverr, Dribbble, or similar
    • AI-assisted: Use as starting point, then refine in a vector tool
  6. Technical requirements:
    • SVG format preferred (scales perfectly, small file size)
    • Should work at 32px (favicon) and 300px (README hero)
    • Must be legible on both dark and light backgrounds
    • Provide dark and light variants

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 218 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A e1e9248bf006

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polish-repo-identity is a command published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,157 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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