layout

layout is a skill for Claude Code from adilkalam/orca. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for improving the arrangement of elements on a page, including spacing, alignment, balance, and visual hierarchy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review page composition, adjust spacing, group related content, and create clearer visual paths through an interface.
Why use it?
It helps fix layouts that feel crowded, repetitive, uneven, or difficult to follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to review page composition, adjust spacing, group related content, and create clearer visual paths through an interface.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adilkalam/orca/layout
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 adilkalam/orca --skill layout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adilkalam/orca

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,942 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 $0.00051 $0.01942
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00777
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00194

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f1bff3cd0ae7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

layout 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 1mo 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/layout/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assess and improve layout and spacing that feels monotonous, crowded, or structurally weak — turning generic arrangements into intentional, rhythmic compositions.

MANDATORY PREPARATION

Run the cognition constraint loop (MANDATORY) — see ~/.claude/docs/reference/cognition-constraint-loop.md. (If design-builder loaded this skill only for craft reference, ignore this block and use the craft below.)


Alignment precision (NEW — runs throughout)

Apply the 7 optical alignment rules + base grid system + pixel-perfect audit. See ~/.claude/docs/concepts/design-contract/preferences/alignment-precision.md.

Balance as organizing principle (NEW)

Every layout has a deliberate visual entry point that carries the viewer to the destination without announcing. Negative/positive space balance. Floating-in-random-spot is refused — see ~/.claude/docs/concepts/design-contract/banned/alignment-spacing.md.


Assess Current Layout

Analyze what's weak about the current spatial design:

  1. Spacing:

    • Is spacing consistent or arbitrary? (Random padding/margin values)
    • Is all spacing the same? (Equal padding everywhere = no rhythm)
    • Are related elements grouped tightly, with generous space between groups?
  2. Visual hierarchy:

    • Apply the squint test: blur your (metaphorical) eyes — can you still identify the most important element, second most important, and clear groupings?
    • Is hierarchy achieved effectively? (Space and weight alone can be enough — but is the current approach working?)
    • Does whitespace guide the eye to what matters?
  3. Grid & structure:

    • Is there a clear underlying structure, or does the layout feel random?
    • Are identical card grids used everywhere? (Icon + heading + text, repeated endlessly)
    • Is everything centered? (Left-aligned with asymmetric layouts feels more designed, but not a hard and fast rule)
  4. Rhythm & variety:

    • Does the layout have visual rhythm? (Alternating tight/generous spacing)
    • Is every section structured the same way? (Monotonous repetition)
    • Are there intentional moments of surprise or emphasis?

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 1mo ago First seen · 151 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f1bff3cd0ae7

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layout is a skill published in the GitHub repository adilkalam/orca (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,942 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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