auteur is an agent skill that guides an AI coding agent through designing, building, and checking an animated website. It is for creating art-directed sites with a planning sheet, generated assets, a build process, motion checks, and an executable linter that blocks low-quality results. The catalogue contains the skill itself as an add-on for compatible coding agents.
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.
npx skills add agiwhitelist/auteur --skill auteurgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agiwhitelist/auteurWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/agiwhitelist/auteur/auteur)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agiwhitelist/auteur/auteur"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agiwhitelist/auteur/auteur/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agiwhitelist/auteur/auteur"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agiwhitelist/auteur/auteur.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00191 | $0.04868 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00096 | $0.02434 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00038 | $0.00974 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00487 |
Grade A, and why
auteur 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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Auteur designs and builds web experiences the way a film director makes a film: script first, then assets, then the shoot, then the cut. It has three registers — build (an excellent conventional site), direct (a cinematic scroll-directed site) and system (a multi-screen product as one design system) — on one shared core of taste. Nothing ships until the page passes an executable anti-slop gate and the skill has looked at its own output.
Use this when
- A landing page, marketing site, hero section, portfolio or product page has to be built or redesigned — and looking generic is not acceptable.
- The brief asks for scroll animation, storytelling, or a site that feels like a film.
- A product spans several screens that must feel like one thing — app, dashboard, admin, onboarding, docs.
- Someone says make it beautiful, make it wow, cinematic, or design system, naming no technique.
Not for polishing a UI someone else built, and not for backend-only work.
What it actually does
- Commits the art direction in writing before any markup — one hue, one type system, a motion budget, named anti-references.
- Generates or sources the assets: local image/video CLIs, Blender, depth maps, CC0 meshes and HDRIs with their licences recorded.
- Builds from proven recipes — one WebGL context, transform/opacity motion, scroll state machines.
- Gates the result:
slopscanfails the build on concrete slop,motionqafails it on dropped frames,systemscanfails it on cross-route drift.
Network access
The recon and sourcing scripts read live pages (awwwards, Bing/Pinterest/are.na image search, Poly Haven, Iconify, Google Fonts, Openverse, Coverr). Fetched content is treated as reference data and licence metadata — never executed, and no credentials, API keys or logins are involved. Skip phases 0–1 entirely if you don't want outbound requests; every other phase works offline.
Non-negotiables
These apply to every register, every phase, always — even if no reference file has been loaded. Match-and-refuse: if you are about to produce one of these, stop and restructure the element.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 154 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 8f956ea0e9ff
auteur is a skill published in the GitHub repository agiwhitelist/auteur (1,019 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 4,868 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.
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