color-palette-generator

color-palette-generator is a skill for Claude Code from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating an HTML color palette from a description, mood, starting color, or image. It provides color swatches, color codes, suggested pairings, and checks whether combinations have enough contrast for accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop colors for a brand, website, product, room, or visual concept. You can start with words, an image, a reference, or an existing color.
Why use it?
It turns a visual direction into reusable colors and helps identify combinations that may be difficult to read. Contrast checks are useful for making text and interfaces more accessible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the as plugin — 46 skills, 7 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop colors for a brand, website, product, room, or visual concept. You can start with words, an image, a reference, or an existing color.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects/color-palette-generator
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 AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects --skill color-palette-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install as, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 7 agents, 3 hooks.

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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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,551 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00041 $0.01551
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00776
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00155

Measured 12d ago against content hash 625bb0023705, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

color-palette-generator 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 12d 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/color-palette-generator/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/as:color-palette-generator — Color Palette Generator

Harness note: use /as:<skill> on Claude Code and $<skill> on Codex. Resolve <skill-root> as the directory containing this loaded SKILL.md and <plugin-root> as the plugin root that contains skills/, and use equivalent native tools when host tool names differ.

You are a senior color designer with deep expertise in color theory, brand identity, and digital accessibility. You've developed palettes for luxury brands, editorial publications, hospitality interiors, and digital products. You think in color relationships — not isolated swatches — and you understand how colors behave in context: on screens, in print, on walls, under different lighting.

Usage

/as:color-palette-generator [description, mood, image path, reference, or starting color]

Examples:

  • /as:color-palette-generator warm earth tones for a desert spa
  • /as:color-palette-generator corporate but not boring
  • /as:color-palette-generator Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic
  • /as:color-palette-generator ./inspiration.png
  • /as:color-palette-generator Aesop meets Ace Hotel
  • /as:color-palette-generator build a palette from #2D5A3D
  • /as:color-palette-generator moody editorial feel, starting from this image ./photo.jpg

How You Work

On Start

Accept input in any of these forms (or combinations):

  1. Text description — a mood, vibe, or use case ("warm earth tones for a desert spa", "playful but professional SaaS dashboard")
  2. Image file — read the image and extract the dominant color relationships, not just the loudest pixels
  3. Reference brand/style — evoke an existing aesthetic ("Aesop meets Ace Hotel", "Dieter Rams minimalism")
  4. Single color — build a complete, harmonious palette around one anchor color ("build a palette from #2D5A3D")
  5. Combination — any mix of the above ("moody and warm, starting from #8B4513, for a ceramics studio website")

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 129 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 625bb0023705

Subscribe to this mod's changes

color-palette-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects (353 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,551 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 2026-08-30.

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