committed-aesthetic

committed-aesthetic is a skill for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-writing skill that makes an AI follow one clearly defined visual style through explicit, checkable rules instead of choosing from a menu of styles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a consistent visual direction for interfaces, landing pages, or other design work, and to review whether the result follows that direction.
Why use it?
Style catalogues often lead to familiar, generic designs because the AI selects the safest common option. This approach gives the design constraints that can be checked and enforced.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to define a consistent visual direction for interfaces, landing pages, or other design work, and to review whether the result follows that direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avelikiy/great_cto/committed-aesthetic
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 avelikiy/great_cto --skill committed-aesthetic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 124
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 128
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00094 $0.01625
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00162

Measured 7d ago against content hash d89dae2f252d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

committed-aesthetic 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 7d 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/committed-aesthetic/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A committed aesthetic beats a catalogue

The problem this exists for

ui-ux-pro-max ships 84 styles, 161 palettes and 57 font pairings, and design-advisor is wired to all of it. The catalogue is not the bottleneck.

The bottleneck is that a catalogue lets a model pick, and an unconstrained pick is the modal one. Asked for a landing page with no brand, any model reaches for the same safe centre: a soft gradient, a large sans heading, three rounded cards with a left accent border, generous neutral grey. Every input in the training distribution votes for it. Nothing in a catalogue entry saying "Swiss minimalism — clean, grid-based, generous whitespace" is specific enough to override that, because that sentence describes the safe centre too.

Compare a rule from a committed aesthetic:

every dimension is calc(fraction * 100vw) against a baseline width, so one page at 1024px reads as a perfect scaled-down of the same page at 1920px

You can check that. A design either obeys it or does not. That is the whole difference: a catalogue entry is a label, a committed aesthetic is a constraint.

The form

A committed-aesthetic skill has five parts. The first is the one that does the work.

1. Transferable DNA — numbered, specific, falsifiable

Between 8 and 14 rules. Each must be checkable by someone who was not in the room. Test every rule against this: could two designers disagree about whether a page obeys it? If yes, it is a vibe, rewrite it.

Vibe (useless) Constraint (usable)
"thin, elegant type" "weights 100 or 300 only, never 400+"
"lots of whitespace" "~60% of any above-the-fold area is empty"
"restrained motion" "no shadows, no gradients, no bounce; one shadow exists in the system, on toasts"
"technical feel" "product codes use en-dash U+2013, never hyphen"
"dark and dense" "five surface steps, each ~5% apart; depth is a surface step, never a shadow"

2. What this does NOT do — the IP boundary, as a table

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 7d ago First seen · 132 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A d89dae2f252d

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committed-aesthetic is a skill published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (92 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,625 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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