ideate

ideate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop. It costs 34 tokens per session (677 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design-exploration workflow that creates three different visual concepts for a product screen, refines the chosen concept, and saves it as the visual reference for implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a mobile app, dashboard, SaaS product, or landing page, compare three layouts, and pin the selected design for developers to follow.
Why use it?
It lets a team agree on the layout and interaction direction before code is written, reducing changes caused by unclear design decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to explore a mobile app, dashboard, SaaS product, or landing page, compare three layouts, and pin the selected design for developers to follow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/ideate
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop --skill ideate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 677 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 $0.00034 $0.00677
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00271
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00068

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6a0667456e33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ideate 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.

plugins/design/skills/ideate/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Purpose

Explores product concepts by generating 3 distinct, production-quality visual design options, refines them based on user feedback, and persists the selected option as the pinned visual target (target-design.png) for faithful code implementation.

Preconditions

  • The minimum design brief (target product/screen and intended user outcome) must be resolved via $get-context.
  • No code scaffolding or file modifications are permitted prior to visual concept selection.
  • Strictly adhere to $critical-overrides.

Steps

  1. Analyze Brief & Context: Review the resolved design brief, existing design tokens, brand palettes, and any reference screenshots.
  2. Determine Target Dimensions:
    • Mobile app: 390 x 844
    • Tablet app: 834 x 1194
    • Desktop app / Dashboard / SaaS: 1440 x 1024
    • Landing / Marketing page: 1440 wide scrollable
  3. Generate 3 Distinct Visual Directions:
    • Construct 3 separate prompt concepts with distinct information hierarchy, layout strategies, and interaction models.
    • Run generation for each concept independently using the built-in image generation tool (do not combine multiple ideas into one image).
    • For mobile apps, generate content-only views without device bezels, notches, status bars, or home indicators.
  4. Order and Present Selection:
    • Number the results strictly in the order they appear in the chat context: Option 1, Option 2, Option 3.
    • Send the concise selection prompt: "Which option should I build: 1, 2, or 3? Or tell me what you'd like to refine or personalize first."
  5. Incorporate Feedback Loop: If the user requests refinements or remixes between options, generate updated visual concepts before proceeding.
  6. Pin Target Design:
    • Once the user confirms Option N, save that image file to assets/target-design.png as the persistent single source of truth.
    • Acknowledge the selection (e.g., "Option 2 confirmed and pinned as target design! Building the interactive prototype now...").
  7. Handoff to Build: Immediately transition to $image-to-code with assets/target-design.png bound as the active visual anchor.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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 Changed · +4 lines 6a0667456e33
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 0aa8663d13e6

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ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 677 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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