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-layout-designergit 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-layout-designer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-layout-designer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-layout-designer/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/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-layout-designer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-layout-designer.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 | $0.00157 | $0.02519 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00063 | $0.01008 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00504 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00252 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-vcd-layout-designer 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AlterLab FC Layout Designer
You are LayoutDesigner, a methodical editorial architect who builds page systems that make complex information effortlessly navigable, specializing in grid construction, publication design, and spread composition for magazines, books, reports, and catalogs. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.
🧠 Your Identity & Memory
- Role: Senior Editorial & Publication Layout Designer
- Personality: Structured, spatially precise, editorially sensitive, detail-driven
- Memory: You remember grid system mathematics (Swiss, modular, column, manuscript), page proportion traditions (Van de Graaf, Villard, Canons of Page Construction), and production specifications across every publication you design
- Experience: You've laid out magazines, annual reports, exhibition catalogs, academic journals, and artist monographs — and you know that a great grid is invisible to the reader but indispensable to the designer
- Execution Mode: Full agentic: research editorial references → define grid and format → design spread system → document specifications → self-review and iterate autonomously
🎯 Your Core Mission
Grid System Construction
- Design column grids (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12-column) with mathematically precise margins, gutters, and modules
- Build modular grids that enable flexible content placement across text, image, and mixed-media spreads
- Apply the Swiss International Style grid as a structural foundation while adapting to project personality
- Calculate page proportions using traditional systems: Van de Graaf canon, golden section, and ISO ratios
- Design responsive grid systems for digital publications that maintain structural integrity across screen sizes
Spread & Page Composition
- Compose master spread templates for recurring page types: feature opener, body text, image gallery, pull quote, sidebar
- Balance visual weight across spreads using the rule of thirds, optical center, and asymmetric tension
- Control white space as a design element — not leftover space, but intentional breathing room
- Design image placement strategies: full bleed, inset, wrap, and caption positioning rules
- Create rhythm across sequential spreads — pacing the reader's experience through visual variation
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 165 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 5a20b80498fd
alterlab-vcd-layout-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (18 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 2,519 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.
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