css-alpha-masking

css-alpha-masking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 2233admin/design-pipeline. It costs 42 tokens per session (422 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of css-alpha-masking, MIT.

A CSS technique that gradually hides the edges of an element using a mask, while keeping its middle visible.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps make horizontal or vertical fades on interface elements, with browser support for Safari included.
Why use it?
It creates controlled fade-outs without changing the element's content or requiring image editing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps make horizontal or vertical fades on interface elements, with browser support for Safari included.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/2233admin/design-pipeline/css-alpha-masking
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 2233admin/design-pipeline --skill css-alpha-masking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/2233admin/design-pipeline

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 422 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.00422
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 8d ago against content hash 049241d4c086, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

css-alpha-masking 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to css-alpha-masking — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skill/references/mengto-skills/upstream/agent-skills/web-design/css-alpha-masking/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

CSS Alpha Masking Skill

Workflow

  1. Confirm direction (horizontal or vertical) and fade stop percentages.
  2. Provide the inline CSS snippet and any needed class usage.
  3. Offer small tweaks only (direction, stop positions, colors).

Usage checklist

  • Apply the mask styles directly on the element or in a CSS class.
  • Always include both mask-image and -webkit-mask-image for Safari.
  • Ensure the element has visible content; masks reveal/hide alpha only.

Horizontal (left/right) fade

/* Add this inline CSS to any element */
mask-image: linear-gradient(to right, transparent, black 15%, black 85%, transparent);
-webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(to right, transparent, black 15%, black 85%, transparent);

Vertical (top/bottom) fade

/* Add this inline CSS to any element */
mask-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, black 15%, black 85%, transparent);
-webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, black 15%, black 85%, transparent);

Customization knobs

  • Direction: to right, to left, to bottom, to top.
  • Fade depth: adjust 15% and 85% stops.
  • Strength: change transparent to rgba(0,0,0,0.2) for softer fades.

Common pitfalls

  • Forgetting the -webkit-mask-image fallback in Safari.
  • Expecting masks to work on elements with overflow: hidden but no visible content behind.

Questions to ask when specs are missing

  • Which direction should the fade go?
  • How wide should the fade edges be?
  • Is this for images, text, or a container background?
Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 45 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 049241d4c086

Subscribe to this mod's changes

css-alpha-masking is a skill published in the GitHub repository 2233admin/design-pipeline (9 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 422 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to css-alpha-masking, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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