visual-reference-calibration

visual-reference-calibration is a skill for Claude Code from aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,080 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for building user interfaces from screenshots, websites, design shots, or other visual references. It helps decide what visual qualities to borrow before writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
For clarifying what a visual reference contributes, creating or inspecting a visual target, and comparing the result with the reference before implementation.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of copying irrelevant details or implementing the right interaction with the wrong look and quality.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit For clarifying what a visual reference contributes, creating or inspecting a visual target, and comparing the result with the reference before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system/visual-reference-calibration
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 visual-reference-calibration
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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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,080 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 $0.00098 $0.01080
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00108

Measured 7d ago against content hash e615548f3b2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-reference-calibration 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 7d 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/visual-reference-calibration/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Reference Calibration

Use this when the user points to a visual reference and wants a UI to borrow its feel, quality, interaction, surface treatment, motion, or style.

Do not use this merely because a screenshot is attached. If the screenshot only marks a bug, awkward edge, or region to review, treat it as evidence for the existing UI and continue with design-review.

This skill exists because we badly missed the Jhey CodePen portfolio-card task by translating a visual reference into implementation mechanics instead of design judgment.

Core rule

Do not code first.

First identify what the reference is actually contributing, confirm that with the user when ambiguous, then create or inspect a visual target before implementation.

Failure pattern to avoid

  • Treating a reference as vague “inspiration” when the user expects close spirit/fidelity.
  • Copying incidental structure from the reference, e.g. fake icons, overflow menus, app chrome.
  • Implementing the mechanism while missing the visual quality.
  • Making isolated component hover polish when the reference is a system-level effect.
  • Shipping preview attempts before comparing side-by-side with the reference.
  • Saying “I’m aligned” before being able to describe the reference in the user’s terms.

Required workflow

1. Build a reference contract

Before implementation, write a short contract. Use templates/reference-intake-contract.md when available:

Reference contract:
- Source/reference:
- What we are borrowing:
- What we are not borrowing:
- Fidelity target: close mimic / same spirit / loose cue
- Existing product constraints:
- Hard no’s:
- Review gate before code:

If any line is uncertain, ask the user before coding.

Hard rule: if you cannot state what to borrow, what not to borrow, and the fidelity target, you cannot build.

2. Ask the right calibration questions

Ask the smallest set that resolves ambiguity. Usually 1-3 questions, not a survey.

Use these in priority order:

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 7d ago First seen · 120 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A e615548f3b2e

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visual-reference-calibration is a skill published in the GitHub repository aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system (5 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,080 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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