agent-friendly-design

agent-friendly-design is a skill for Claude Code from aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system. It costs 154 tokens per session (2,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for building websites and applications that AI agents can understand and use, alongside human visitors. It covers semantic HTML, accessibility, machine-readable data, and API-oriented design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating an agent-facing site or app, including its semantic structure, accessibility tree, machine-readable content, and API patterns.
Why use it?
It helps agents reliably read page structure and interact with controls, reducing dependence on visual guesses or unclear layouts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the agentic-design-system plugin — 10 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating an agent-facing site or app, including its semantic structure, accessibility tree, machine-readable content, and API patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system/agent-friendly-design
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 aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system --skill agent-friendly-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-design-system, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,206 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 $0.00154 $0.02206
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01103
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00221

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4d03ef014984, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-friendly-design 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 9d 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.

skills/agent-friendly-design/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-friendly design

how to build sites and apps that AI agents can actually use.

why this exists

most design guidance is about agents building UI. this skill is about agents consuming UI. the audience for your site is no longer just humans — automated traffic surpassed human traffic in 2024 (51% of all web interactions). agents browse, compare, purchase, research, and interact on behalf of users.

if your site is invisible to agents, you're invisible to a growing majority of the web.

the core insight

the accessibility tree — originally built for screen readers — is becoming the primary interface between AI agents and your website. OpenAI's Atlas explicitly uses ARIA tags to interpret page structure. Microsoft's Playwright MCP provides accessibility snapshots, not screenshots. even vision-first agents (Anthropic Computer Use, Google Mariner) are incorporating accessibility data for reliability.

building for agents and building for accessibility are the same work. every improvement you make for one benefits the other.

the checklist

1. semantic HTML (non-negotiable)

agents can't "see" your layout. they read structure. div soup is invisible.

  • use native elements: <button>, <nav>, <main>, <article>, <section>, <header>, <footer>, <aside>
  • proper heading hierarchy: <h1> through <h6>, no skipped levels
  • <label> elements explicitly associated with form inputs (use for attribute)
  • <table> for tabular data with <thead>, <th>, and scope attributes
  • links are <a> elements, buttons are <button> elements. never <div onclick>
  • use <form> for forms, with <fieldset> and <legend> for groups
  • meaningful <img alt> text (not "image1.png")

test: disable CSS. can you still understand the page? if yes, agents can too.

2. ARIA: useful, not magic

ARIA supplements semantic HTML — it doesn't replace it. use it when native elements can't express the interaction.

  • aria-label on buttons and links that lack visible text (icon buttons, close buttons)
  • aria-expanded on toggles, dropdowns, accordions
  • aria-live regions for dynamic content agents need to notice (status messages, notifications)
  • role attributes only when there's no native element (e.g., role="tablist", role="dialog")
  • aria-describedby for complex form fields that need additional context
  • aria-hidden="true" on decorative elements agents should ignore

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 9d ago First seen · 184 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A 4d03ef014984

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agent-friendly-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system (5 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 2,206 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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