shape

shape is a skill for Claude Code from adilkalam/orca. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,217 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of shape, MIT.

A planning process for designing a feature's user experience and interface before coding begins. It produces a design brief based on structured discovery and project constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a feature's users, goals, interaction design, visual direction, and requirements before handing the work to developers.
Why use it?
It helps teams make key design decisions early instead of relying on guesswork during implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to clarify a feature's users, goals, interaction design, visual direction, and requirements before handing the work to developers.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,217 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 86% 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 $0.00049 $0.01217
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00487
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00122

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 123b86c59bff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shape 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to shape — 28 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.

skills/shape/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY PREPARATION

Invoke {{command_prefix}}impeccable, which 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.


Register calibration (NEW — runs BEFORE Bakaus's discovery interview)

Invoke interfaces-that-feel peer skill first to determine the product's emotional register: joy/belonging, efficiency/competence, trust/safety, or urgency/clarity. The register conditions which parts of the main spine apply fully vs. which dial back.

See skills/interfaces-that-feel/SKILL.md for the calibration table.


Shape the UX and UI for a feature before any code is written. This skill produces a design brief: a structured artifact that guides implementation through discovery, not guesswork.

Scope: Design planning only. This skill does NOT write code. It produces the thinking that makes code good.

Output: A design brief that can be handed off to {{command_prefix}}impeccable craft, {{command_prefix}}impeccable, or any other implementation skill.

Philosophy

Most AI-generated UIs fail not because of bad code, but because of skipped thinking. They jump to "here's a card grid" without asking "what is the user trying to accomplish?" This skill inverts that: understand deeply first, so implementation is precise.

Phase 1: Discovery Interview

Do NOT write any code or make any design decisions during this phase. Your only job is to understand the feature deeply enough to make excellent design decisions later.

Ask these questions in conversation, adapting based on answers. Don't dump them all at once; have a natural dialogue. {{ask_instruction}}

Purpose & Context

  • What is this feature for? What problem does it solve?
  • Who specifically will use it? (Not "users"; be specific: role, context, frequency)
  • What does success look like? How will you know this feature is working?
  • What's the user's state of mind when they reach this feature? (Rushed? Exploring? Anxious? Focused?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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 · 108 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 123b86c59bff

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shape is a skill published in the GitHub repository adilkalam/orca (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,217 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to shape, differing in 28 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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