guidelines

guidelines is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bromso/metapowers. It costs 10 tokens per session (541 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document that records how a brand should look, sound, and be used. It brings together the brand’s purpose, messaging, logo rules, colors, and typography.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compile completed brand research, strategy, verbal direction, and visual identity into a single guidelines document.
Why use it?
It gives everyone working on the brand one shared reference instead of leaving key decisions scattered across earlier documents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the branding plugin — 5 skills shipped together

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/bromso/metapowers/guidelines
Any agent
npx skills add bromso/metapowers --skill guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bromso/metapowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install branding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 541 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00010 $0.00541
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00054

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1bae8a950fc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guidelines 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 4d 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.

plugins/branding/skills/guidelines/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand Guidelines

Compile all brand work for "$ARGUMENTS" into a comprehensive brand guidelines document — the single source of truth for anyone using the brand.

Prerequisites

Read all prior phase artifacts. If 04-visual.md does not exist, tell the user:

Phase 4 (Visual) has not been completed for "$ARGUMENTS". Run /branding:visual $ARGUMENTS first, or use --skip-checks to bypass.

If --skip-checks is present in $ARGUMENTS, skip this check and log to .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/skip-log.md.

Process

  1. Read all prior artifacts:

    • Read .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/01-discover.md for context
    • Read .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/02-strategy.md for brand platform
    • Read .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/03-verbal.md for voice, tone, messaging
    • Read .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/04-visual.md for visual identity
    • Read plugins/branding/shared/brand-guidelines-template.md for output structure
  2. Compile the brand guidelines following the template, combining:

    • Brand overview (purpose, vision, mission, values from Strategy)
    • Logo usage rules and variations (from Visual)
    • Color palette with specifications (from Visual)
    • Typography system (from Visual)
    • Imagery and photography guidelines (from Visual)
    • Voice and tone guidelines (from Verbal)
    • Application examples — how the brand appears across key touchpoints
  3. Add compliance rules:

    • What must always be done (mandatory elements)
    • What must never be done (prohibited uses)
    • Common mistakes to avoid
    • When to seek brand team approval
  4. Reference assets:

    • Link to all files in .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/assets/
    • List available logo variants, fonts, and imagery
  5. Write the artifact to .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/05-guidelines.md

Output

The brand guidelines written to .metapowers/branding/$ARGUMENTS/05-guidelines.md. Present a summary to the user highlighting:

  • Sections covered
  • Number of compliance rules
  • Asset inventory
  • How other domains can use these guidelines (e.g., /branding:audit)

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 4d ago First seen · 54 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 1bae8a950fc2

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guidelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository bromso/metapowers (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 541 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.