polish

A final review process for improving a finished interface before release. It checks details such as spacing, alignment, consistency, interaction states, copy, edge cases, loading, and transitions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a pre-launch review of a website or interface when you need to fix finishing details and make the experience consistent.
Why use it?
It catches small visual and interaction problems that can remain after the main feature already works.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arnabdeypolimi/claude_code_setup/polish
Any agent
npx skills add arnabdeypolimi/claude_code_setup --skill polish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arnabdeypolimi/claude_code_setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,847 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.01847
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00924
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00185

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5f9af3783ad0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polish 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to polish — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/polish/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY PREPARATION

Invoke /frontend-design — it contains design principles, anti-patterns, and the Context Gathering Protocol. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no design context exists yet, you MUST run /teach-impeccable first. Additionally gather: quality bar (MVP vs flagship).


Perform a meticulous final pass to catch all the small details that separate good work from great work. The difference between shipped and polished.

Pre-Polish Assessment

Understand the current state and goals:

  1. Review completeness:

    • Is it functionally complete?
    • Are there known issues to preserve (mark with TODOs)?
    • What's the quality bar? (MVP vs flagship feature?)
    • When does it ship? (How much time for polish?)
  2. Identify polish areas:

    • Visual inconsistencies
    • Spacing and alignment issues
    • Interaction state gaps
    • Copy inconsistencies
    • Edge cases and error states
    • Loading and transition smoothness

CRITICAL: Polish is the last step, not the first. Don't polish work that's not functionally complete.

Polish Systematically

Work through these dimensions methodically:

Visual Alignment & Spacing

  • Pixel-perfect alignment: Everything lines up to grid
  • Consistent spacing: All gaps use spacing scale (no random 13px gaps)
  • Optical alignment: Adjust for visual weight (icons may need offset for optical centering)
  • Responsive consistency: Spacing and alignment work at all breakpoints
  • Grid adherence: Elements snap to baseline grid

Check:

  • Enable grid overlay and verify alignment
  • Check spacing with browser inspector
  • Test at multiple viewport sizes
  • Look for elements that "feel" off

Typography Refinement

  • Hierarchy consistency: Same elements use same sizes/weights throughout
  • Line length: 45-75 characters for body text
  • Line height: Appropriate for font size and context
  • Widows & orphans: No single words on last line
  • Hyphenation: Appropriate for language and column width
  • Kerning: Adjust letter spacing where needed (especially headlines)
  • Font loading: No FOUT/FOIT flashes

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 3d ago First seen · 202 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 5f9af3783ad0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository arnabdeypolimi/claude_code_setup (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,847 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to polish, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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