polish

polish is a skill for Claude Code from adilkalam/orca. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final design-quality checklist for fixing small interface problems before release. It focuses on alignment, spacing, typography, consistency, and visual details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a final review of a website or app when alignment, spacing, or overall polish needs attention.
Why use it?
It catches issues that can make an otherwise finished interface feel uneven or unfinished.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it for a final review of a website or app when alignment, spacing, or overall polish needs attention.

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

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,562 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 $0.00050 $0.02562
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01025
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00256

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e56f0f452133, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polish 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/polish/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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.)

Invoke {{command_prefix}}impeccable — it contains design principles, anti-patterns, and the Context Gathering Protocol. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no design context exists yet, you MUST run {{command_prefix}}impeccable teach first. Additionally gather: quality bar (MVP vs flagship).


Precision audit (NEW — runs BEFORE Bakaus's polish checklist)

Run the deterministic detector's pixel-precision audit. Zero tolerance on alignment — any misalignment > 0px is flagged P0.

Run the typography-spacing junction audit (presence of :first-child, :has(), :last-child rules; per-heading asymmetric margins).

References:

  • ~/.claude/docs/concepts/design-contract/preferences/alignment-precision.md
  • ~/.claude/docs/concepts/design-contract/preferences/typography-spacing.md
  • Detector: mcp/design-detector/ (see Phase 7)

Perform a meticulous final pass to catch all the small details that separate good work from great work. The difference between shipped and polished.

Design System Discovery

Before polishing, understand the system you are polishing toward:

  1. Find the design system: Search for design system documentation, component libraries, style guides, or token definitions. Study the core patterns: color tokens, spacing scale, typography styles, component API.
  2. Note the conventions: How are shared components imported? What spacing scale is used? Which colors come from tokens vs hard-coded values? What motion and interaction patterns are established?
  3. Identify drift: Where does the target feature deviate from the system? Hard-coded values that should be tokens, custom components that duplicate shared ones, spacing that doesn't match the scale.

If a design system exists, polish should align the feature with it. If none exists, polish against the conventions visible in the codebase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 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 · 256 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e56f0f452133

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polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository adilkalam/orca (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,562 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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