use-frontend

use-frontend is a skill for Claude Code from blockmatic/basilic. It costs 32 tokens per session (653 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for building or reshaping user-facing web interfaces. It considers existing design tokens, reusable components, accessibility, responsive layouts, keyboard use, and a limited visual check of the rendered result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or change screens and interactions in a web application, using the project's existing components and styles where possible.
Why use it?
It gives interface work a consistent process and helps avoid inaccessible, visually inconsistent, or unnecessarily duplicated UI code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to create or change screens and interactions in a web application, using the project's existing components and styles where possible.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/blockmatic/basilic/use-frontend
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 blockmatic/basilic --skill use-frontend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/blockmatic/basilic

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 653 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00032 $0.00653
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00327
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5c0c94c40e6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-frontend 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/workflow/use-frontend/SKILL.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose and inputs

Build or reshape a user-facing surface. Planning a feature without UI work stays on /plan-feature. Installing a primitive stays on /use-shadcn. Do not write PRODUCT.md or DESIGN.md. Do not install animation libraries or design-detector hooks.

Load frontend-design-v1 for visual direction, composition-patterns-v1 for reusable APIs, and web-design-guidelines-v1 for the UI code checklist. Product jobs belong to /f-journeys when the change is durable.

Steps

  1. Purpose and audience. Name the job, the person, and the surface mode: Operate (app/task), Persuade (marketing), or Read (docs). Durable jobs stay in the Journeys overlay; do not generate DESIGN.md.
  2. Visual references. Use the brief, existing screens, or a stated aesthetic. If the repo has tokens and shared components, inspect those first. Tokens win over a greenfield palette (frontend-design-v1/references/product-ui.md).
  3. Reuse before invent. Prefer shared primitives. Compose at the second call site. Do not extract a compound API for a one-off route. Do not lift server data into a client provider.
  4. Responsive and interaction. Mobile-first layout, visible focus, keyboard path, prefers-reduced-motion. Do not add a new motion library.
  5. Harden states. Loading, empty, error, success, and long/overflow content. Skip a full i18n/RTL program unless the repo already localizes.
  6. Implement the smallest slice that completes the job.
  7. Rendered verification (bounded). Inspect desktop and mobile together. Exercise primary interactions and keyboard navigation. Critique screenshots. Fix evidenced issues in one batch. Confirm with at most one more pass, then stop. If browser tools are missing, say so and use the closest substitute. A type check is not visual QA.
  8. Optional checklists. /audit-accessibility for the Quality overlay (do not invent a WCAG level). @web-design-guidelines-v1 for code-level interface rules. Playwright E2E only when an existing spec covers the path—it does not replace the screenshot loop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 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. 2d ago First seen · 36 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 5c0c94c40e6c

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use-frontend is a skill published in the GitHub repository blockmatic/basilic (89 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 653 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-06.

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