skin

skin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from basicScandal/claude-skins. It costs 56 tokens per session (374 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for changing Claude Code's visual theme, including terminal colours, banners, status-line styling, personality and feedback sounds. A skin is a saved collection of these appearance settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list available skins, activate one, reset the terminal appearance or set the current skin as the default.
Why use it?
It lets you change or restore the command-line experience without adjusting each setting separately. You can also choose a permanent default theme.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to list available skins, activate one, reset the terminal appearance or set the current skin as the default.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/basicscandal/claude-skins/engine
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 basicScandal/claude-skins --skill engine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basicScandal/claude-skins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for skin

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/basicscandal/claude-skins/engine/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/basicscandal/claude-skins/engine)
Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for skin

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 374 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.
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 $0.00056 $0.00374
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00150
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1a57385ce657, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skin 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (activate.sh, deactivate.sh, parse-yaml.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

engine/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Skin — Claude Code Visual Themes

Switch between visual skins that change terminal colors, ASCII banners, status line theme, Claude's personality/voice, and tool feedback sounds.

Usage

The user invokes this skill with /skin followed by an optional argument.

Behavior

/skin (no arguments) — List available skins

Run the following to list skins and show which is active:

~/.claude/skins/engine/skin-command-hook.sh <<< '{"prompt": "/skin"}'

Display the output to the user.

/skin <name> — Activate a skin

Run activate.sh with the skin name:

~/.claude/skins/engine/activate.sh <name>

After activation, tell the user the skin is active and mention they can set it as default with /skin default.

If the personality file exists at ~/.claude/skins/personalities/<name>.md, read it and adopt that voice for the rest of the session.

/skin reset — Deactivate and restore

Run deactivate.sh:

~/.claude/skins/engine/deactivate.sh

Tell the user the terminal has been restored.

/skin default — Set current as permanent default

Read the current skin from ~/.claude/skins/engine/current, then update ~/.claude/skins/engine/config.yaml to set default_skin to that value.

Tell the user which skin was set as default.

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 1mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 1a57385ce657

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skin is a skill published in the GitHub repository basicScandal/claude-skins (19 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 374 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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