interface-craft

interface-craft is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 79 tokens per session (913 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interface-quality guide for improving layout, visual hierarchy, typography, spacing, density, and interaction details.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps refine screen layouts, choose a clear primary action, set type and spacing scales, improve readability, and finish interface states.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a working screen still feels unfinished or crowded. It turns vague visual problems into specific design decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the product plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps refine screen layouts, choose a clear primary action, set type and spacing scales, improve readability, and finish interface states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/interface-craft
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 2,075 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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 cbrock84/headcount --skill interface-craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 913 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 $0.00079 $0.00913
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00365
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00091

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 987938d19f55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interface-craft 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.

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/product/skills/interface-craft/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interface craft

Most interfaces do not fail on ideas. They fail on execution — spacing that is nearly consistent, hierarchy that is nearly clear, type that is nearly right.

Diagnose before restyling

Ask what the screen is for. One primary action, at most one secondary. If you cannot name the primary action, the layout problem is a product problem and no amount of styling fixes it.

The things that actually read as quality

Hierarchy. A viewer should know where to look before they read anything. Achieve it with size, weight, and space — in that order. Color is the weakest hierarchy tool and the most overused.

Spacing rhythm. Related things sit closer than unrelated things, and the gaps come from one scale. Inconsistent spacing is the defect people feel but cannot name. Get proximity right and a plain layout reads as designed.

Type. One family for the interface, two at most on the page. Set a real scale and use its steps rather than inventing sizes. Body text wants a comfortable measure — roughly 60–75 characters — and line height that grows as the measure widens.

Restraint in surfaces. Borders, shadows, and fills all separate things. Pick one per boundary. Stacking all three is why interfaces look busy at normal density.

Alignment. Everything lines up with something. An element aligned to nothing reads as a mistake even when it is intentional.

Density is a decision

An information-dense tool and a marketing page want opposite treatments. Decide which this is and commit — the uncomfortable middle, where a data table has landing-page padding, serves neither.

Finish the states

Loading, empty, error, and overflow are where products feel unfinished. An empty state is a design opportunity; a spinner with no context is an admission. Long strings, long lists, and small screens must all be handled, not hoped about.

Dark mode is a palette, not an inversion

Inverting a light theme produces the characteristic bad dark mode: pure black backgrounds, pure white text, and shadows that do nothing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 Changed · +7 lines 987938d19f55
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A cd3432107db1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interface-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (2,075 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 913 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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