visual-research CLAUDE.md

A Claude Code skill that researches a brand’s visual identity and produces a branded HTML report. The repository contains the skill instructions and report template rather than a conventional application.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps research brands such as Cash App or Stripe and create reports with branded layouts, typography, colors, and images.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable structure for collecting and presenting a brand’s visual characteristics.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/danpeg/visual-research/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danpeg/visual-research
Per session 844 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 844 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00844 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00422 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00169 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00084 $0.00084

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7923828069e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-research CLAUDE.md 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 2d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What This Is

A Claude Code skill (SKILL.md) that runs a five-phase pipeline to research any brand's visual identity and produce a branded HTML report. Built by Curious Endeavor, a brand agency using agentic branding flows.

The skill is invoked conversationally ("research Cash App", "visual research on Stripe") — there is no build step, test suite, or runtime. The repo is documentation and templates, not executable code.

Repository Structure

  • SKILL.md — The skill definition. This is what Claude reads when the skill is invoked. Contains the full pipeline spec, input format, phase definitions, image embedding procedure, and OpenClaw deployment options.
  • templates/report.html — HTML report template with {{PLACEHOLDER}} variables and data-slot image positions. Full-width layout with sticky CE bar, hero block, pill-track navigation, and 12 report sections. Uses CSS custom properties for branding (:root block). Fonts: Larken (Adobe Fonts, headlines), Inter (Google Fonts, body), JetBrains Mono (Google Fonts, technical labels). CE logo is base64-embedded.
  • templates/assets/ce-logo-red.png — CE logo source file (embedded in the template as base64).
  • references/ — Supporting docs the skill reads during execution:
    • brand-audit-framework.md — The 13-section research template
    • source-discovery-guide.md — Search strategies for finding brand assets
    • image-extraction-techniques.md — Instagram API, Prismic CMS, yt-dlp recipes
    • ce-styleguide.md — Curious Endeavor design rules (colors, typography, spacing, components)

Key Concepts

Five phases: Discover → Capture → Extract → Analyze → Package. Each phase has specific tool requirements and fallbacks documented in SKILL.md.

Template variables in report.html: Uses {{MUSTACHE}} placeholders for content ({{BRAND_NAME}}, {{TLDR_VERDICT}}, {{SIGNAL_HEADLINE}}, {{FACT_N_VALUE}}, {{SWATCH_N_HEX}}, {{EVOLUTION_N_YEARS}}, etc.). Images use a data-slot system — each <img> has a data-slot="N" attribute (slots 0-18) and data-aspect for expected ratio. Images are base64-embedded by replacing the src attribute of the matching slot.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 844 tokens per session scan A 7923828069e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

visual-research CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository danpeg/visual-research (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 844 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 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 2026-08-31.