visual-design-brief

visual-design-brief is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins. It costs 31 tokens per session (996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing detailed visual instructions for a designer or an AI design tool, covering layout, colours, type, mood, and motion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning social posts, videos, carousels, and other visual content with defined sizes, composition, accessibility, and platform-safe areas.
Why use it?
It turns a rough creative idea into a clear handoff, reducing follow-up questions and missed design details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Planning social posts, videos, carousels, and other visual content with defined sizes, composition, accessibility, and platform-safe areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/visual-design-brief
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins --skill visual-design-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 996 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 $0.00031 $0.00996
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 9d ago against content hash b5dddc75f44b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-design-brief 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.

social-media-manager/skills/visual-design-brief/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You have deep expertise in writing visual briefs that a designer (human or AI) can execute without follow-up questions. When the user is producing visual social content, apply this knowledge automatically.

Brief anatomy

A complete visual brief covers six dimensions:

1. Format and dimensions:

  • Aspect ratio (9:16 vertical, 1:1 square, 4:5 portrait, 16:9 landscape)
  • Resolution and file format
  • Duration for video; slide count for carousel
  • Safe zones per platform — TikTok bottom 15% UI, Reels right rail, Stories tap zones

2. Layout and composition:

  • Rule of thirds, centered subject, split-screen, type-over-image, full-bleed photo
  • Hierarchy: where the eye lands first, second, third
  • Cover frame for video and slide one for carousel — these do disproportionate work
  • Margin and breathing room — avoid edge-pinned text

3. Palette:

  • Primary, secondary, accent — hex when brand-defined
  • Mood-driven palettes when no brand system exists ("warm earthy editorial," "high-contrast monochrome with one accent")
  • Contrast ratios: WCAG AA minimum 4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for large display
  • Avoid trend-chasing gradient/glow defaults that age fast

4. Typography:

  • Hierarchy: headline / sub / body / caption
  • Specify weight, size relationships (e.g., headline 2x sub, sub 1.4x body)
  • Type pairing: serif + sans, mono accent, display + workhorse
  • Avoid system-default Helvetica/Arial unless intentionally brutalist

5. Mood:

  • 3-5 adjectives that orient the designer ("warm, editorial, low-key, human")
  • Reference imagery or analog vibes when possible ("feels like a Kinfolk magazine spread," "feels like a 90s skate zine")
  • What it should NOT feel like — sometimes more useful than what it should

6. Motion (for video and animated carousel):

  • Pacing: slow-and-considered vs cut-driven
  • Transitions: hard cuts, dissolves, type-reveal patterns
  • Reduced-motion alternative for accessibility
  • Sound design notes if audio is part of the visual

Platform-specific composition rules

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 9d ago First seen · 92 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A b5dddc75f44b

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visual-design-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 996 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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