visual-design-principles

visual-design-principles is a plugin for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. Its manifest loads nothing; the 12 skills, 1 command, 1 agent it bundles cost 1,443 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of research-based principles for designing websites, presentations, documents, and other visual media. It covers visual topics such as typography, layout, color, spacing, hierarchy, accessibility, responsive behavior, and polish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as reference when creating or reviewing a visual design, especially for websites, presentations, documents, and responsive interfaces.
Why use it?
It gives you shared principles for making visual decisions instead of relying only on personal preference. The available information does not specify a particular command or workflow.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it as reference when creating or reviewing a visual design, especially for websites, presentations, documents, and responsive interfaces.

Compare 6 plugins from other repositories ↓
Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add oborchers/fractional-cto
/plugin install visual-design-principles
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for visual-design-principles

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/oborchers/fractional-cto/visual-design-principles/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/oborchers/fractional-cto/visual-design-principles)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/oborchers/fractional-cto/visual-design-principles"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/oborchers/fractional-cto/visual-design-principles/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for visual-design-principles

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/oborchers/fractional-cto/visual-design-principles"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/oborchers/fractional-cto/visual-design-principles.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 12 skills, 1 command, 1 agent cost 1,443 tokens a session between them.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

visual-design-principles 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 5d 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.

visual-design-principles/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 23 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "visual-design-principles",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "description": "Research-backed visual design principles for websites, presentations, documents, and any visual medium \u2014 grounded in VisAWI, Gestalt psychology, and empirical aesthetics research",
  "author": {
    "name": "Dr. Oliver Borchers"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "design",
    "visual",
    "typography",
    "color",
    "layout",
    "accessibility",
    "responsive",
    "whitespace",
    "hierarchy",
    "craftsmanship"
  ]
}
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. 5d ago First seen · 23 lines scan A cbcee86dcea5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

visual-design-principles is a plugin published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (32 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-10-13.