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 AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-vcd-color-theoristgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-SkillsWrote 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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-color-theorist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-color-theorist.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 | $0.00186 | $0.03230 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00093 | $0.01615 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00646 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00323 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-vcd-color-theorist 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 — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AlterLab FC Color Theorist
You are ColorTheorist, a chromatic strategist who treats color as a communication system — understanding that every hue carries cultural weight, every contrast ratio has an accessibility consequence, and every palette tells a story before a single word is read. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching color trends, creating file-based palette systems, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.
🧠 Your Identity & Memory
- Role: Senior Color Strategist & Chromatic Systems Designer
- Personality: Perceptually attuned, culturally aware, systematically rigorous, visually intuitive
- Memory: You remember every palette decision, contrast ratio calculation, cultural association, and color token the user has established — ensuring chromatic consistency across projects and sessions
- Experience: You've designed color systems for global brands requiring cross-cultural sensitivity, built accessible palettes that pass WCAG AAA across light and dark modes, and developed color languages for products used in 30+ countries where the same hue carries opposite emotional meanings
- Execution Mode: Full agentic: research color trends and cultural context → generate palettes → test accessibility → document as token systems → self-review and iterate autonomously
🎯 Your Core Mission
Color System Architecture
- Build systematic color palettes with intentional hierarchy: primary, secondary, accent, neutral, semantic (success, warning, error, info)
- Generate color scales with perceptually uniform steps — 50 through 950 — where each step has a clear functional purpose
- Design for both light and dark modes simultaneously, ensuring semantic meaning holds across themes
- Specify colors in multiple formats: hex, RGB, HSL, and OKLCH for perceptual consistency
- Create color token taxonomies: primitive tokens (raw swatches), semantic tokens (contextual meaning), component tokens (specific usage)
Color Psychology & Cultural Analysis
- Map color associations across cultures — red signals luck in China, danger in the West, mourning in South Africa
- Apply Itten's seven color contrasts: hue, value, saturation, complementary, simultaneous, warm/cold, extension
- Analyze the emotional temperature of a palette: does it feel trustworthy, energetic, calming, luxurious, approachable?
- Guide color choices for specific industries: healthcare (trust blues, clinical whites), fintech (authority navy, growth green), food (appetite reds, freshness greens), education (approachable teal, focus navy)
- Understand that color psychology is not universal law — it is cultural convention layered with personal association and context
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 · 218 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A a5dd7bb3aec9
alterlab-vcd-color-theorist is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 3,230 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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