design-reference

design-reference is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bryntay/a1-mcp. It costs 72 tokens per session (692 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for answering web-design questions with measurements from real websites. It covers things such as font sizes, spacing, content widths, colors, and page sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research typical layouts, compare page types, find visual examples, and choose sizes or spacing for a website.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about common design choices with measurements and examples from a large collection of captured websites.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the a1-gallery plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 2 MCP servers 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/bryntay/a1-mcp/design-reference
Any agent
npx skills add bryntay/a1-mcp --skill design-reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bryntay/a1-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install a1-gallery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 2 MCP servers.

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 design-reference

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bryntay/a1-mcp/design-reference.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bryntay/a1-mcp/design-reference)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bryntay/a1-mcp/design-reference"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bryntay/a1-mcp/design-reference.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 692 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 5.1 $0.00072 $0.00692
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00346
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00069

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4427d3f0b4fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-reference 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 5d 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/design-reference/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ground the decision in real sites

A1 holds 1,165 live websites, 3,209 captured sections across 826 of them, and 2,860 full-page captures. Sections carry values measured off the live page — type sizes, spacing, container width, radius, palette hex — so a design question can be answered with numbers rather than an opinion.

Pick the tool by the shape of the question.

Question Tool
"What type scale do agency heroes use?" analyze_design_tokens
"What do portfolio FAQs ask about?" analyze_section_content
"Show me dark fintech heroes" search_sections
"Find minimal law-firm sites" search_websites
"How does Stripe design its pricing page?" get_website_pages
"Compare pricing pages across sites" search_pages

Aggregates before examples

For anything phrased as a norm — how big, how much, what's typical — start with analyze_design_tokens or analyze_section_content. They read every site captured. A handful of screenshots is not evidence of a norm, and picking three examples yourself invents one.

Then pull two or three examples with search_sections so the user can see the numbers in context.

Read the quartiles as quartiles

analyze_design_tokens returns p25 / median / p75, not an average, because these values are long-tailed. Report the range. "Agency heroes run 48–72px, median 60" is the useful answer; "the average is 58.4px" is not.

Respect lowSample

Both aggregate tools set lowSample: true when the slice is thin, and narrow slices go thin fast — a sectionType and a websiteType together often land on five sections.

When you see it, say so and widen the filter. Do not report a percentage off five sections, and do not present them as what such sites typically do. The tool tells you which way to widen; drop websiteType first.

search_websites matches taxonomy tags, so a vague visual brief lands better rephrased in the gallery's terms: big-type, minimal, editorial, brutalist, monochrome, blurred-gradients, scroll-animation, bento. get_design_filters returns the full list with counts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 5d ago First seen · 63 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 4427d3f0b4fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository bryntay/a1-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 692 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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