top-design

top-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chama-x/GroundRules. It costs 113 tokens per session (5,241 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of top-design, MIT.

Guidance for creating highly polished web experiences with deliberate typography, spacing, motion, and visual storytelling. It also provides a scoring framework based on award-focused agency work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for portfolio sites, brand experiences, cinematic pages, scroll-based animation, parallax effects, or reviews aiming for a high visual standard.
Why use it?
It helps identify why a website feels ordinary or unfinished and points to specific improvements. It treats animation, visual hierarchy, and performance as parts of the overall experience.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/chama-x/groundrules/skill_top-design
Any agent
npx skills add chama-x/GroundRules --skill skill_top-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chama-x/GroundRules

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.

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README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,241 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00113 $0.05241
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.02620
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00524

Measured 4d ago against content hash 38e84e4c2546, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

top-design 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to top-design — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/archive/v3/skill_top-design/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Top-Design: Award-Winning Digital Experiences

Create websites and applications at the level of world-class digital agencies. This skill embodies the craft of studios that consistently win FWA, Awwwards, CSS Design Awards, and Webby Awards.

Core Principle

Every pixel is intentional -- nothing default, nothing accidental. The agencies you are emulating -- Locomotive, Studio Freight, AREA 17, Active Theory, Hello Monday -- share a common DNA: typography IS the design, motion creates emotion, white space is a weapon, and performance is non-negotiable (60fps or nothing).

The foundation: The gap between 8/10 and 10/10 is not skill -- it is intention. An 8/10 has good typography and smooth animations; a 10/10 has typography that makes you gasp and animations that tell stories. Every decision must answer: "Does this serve the experience, or is it just filling space?"

Scoring

Goal: 10/10. Rate any digital experience 0-10 using the rubric below -- a 10/10 would be featured on Awwwards. Always state the current score and the specific improvements needed to reach 10/10.

Scoring Rubric

Score Level Description
0-2 Amateur Default fonts, no hierarchy, generic layout, template feel
3-4 Basic Decent typography, some hierarchy, but forgettable
5-6 Competent Good fundamentals, clean execution, but lacks soul
7-8 Professional Strong typography, intentional motion, clear POV
9 Exceptional Signature moments, memorable details, near-flawless craft
10 World-class Would win Awwwards SOTD, defines new standards

Category Scoring (Each 0-10)

TYPOGRAPHY (Weight: 25%)

Score Criteria
0-3 System fonts, uniform scale, default tracking
4-6 Premium fonts, some scale contrast, basic hierarchy
7-8 Dramatic scale contrast (10:1+), perfect tracking, optical alignment
9-10 Typography IS the design -- gasping moments, custom/variable fonts, type as architecture

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 4d ago First seen · 289 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 38e84e4c2546

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top-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository chama-x/GroundRules (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 5,241 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to top-design, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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