quieter

A design-review skill for making overly bold or visually intense interfaces feel calmer and more approachable while preserving their quality and impact.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to tone down an overstimulating webpage or interface and refine its visual style. It can guide a review of what makes a design feel too bold.
Why use it?
It helps when colors, layouts, or other visual choices feel aggressive or overwhelming. It first gathers context about the audience, use case, and brand tone before suggesting changes.

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/childrentime/reactuse/quieter
Any agent
npx skills add childrentime/reactuse --skill quieter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/childrentime/reactuse

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,249 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 $0.00022 $0.01249
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00125

Measured 2d ago against content hash 92fb00bc35e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quieter 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • quieter — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
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  • i-quieter — 84% identical, 22 lines differ
packages/website-astro/.agents/skills/quieter/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reduce visual intensity in designs that are too bold, aggressive, or overstimulating, creating a more refined and approachable aesthetic without losing effectiveness.

MANDATORY PREPARATION

Context Gathering (Do This First)

You cannot do a great job without having necessary context, such as target audience (critical), desired use-cases (critical), brand personality/tone, and everything else that a great human designer would need as well.

Attempt to gather these from the current thread or codebase.

  1. If you don't find exact information and have to infer from existing design and functionality, you MUST STOP and STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify. whether you got it right.
  2. Otherwise, if you can't fully infer or your level of confidence is medium or lower, you MUST STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify. clarifying questions first to complete your context.

Do NOT proceed until you have answers. Guessing leads to generic design.

Use frontend-design skill

Use the frontend-design skill for design principles and anti-patterns. Do NOT proceed until it has executed and you know all DO's and DON'Ts.


Assess Current State

Analyze what makes the design feel too intense:

  1. Identify intensity sources:

    • Color saturation: Overly bright or saturated colors
    • Contrast extremes: Too much high-contrast juxtaposition
    • Visual weight: Too many bold, heavy elements competing
    • Animation excess: Too much motion or overly dramatic effects
    • Complexity: Too many visual elements, patterns, or decorations
    • Scale: Everything is large and loud with no hierarchy
  2. Understand the context:

    • What's the purpose? (Marketing vs tool vs reading experience)
    • Who's the audience? (Some contexts need energy)
    • What's working? (Don't throw away good ideas)
    • What's the core message? (Preserve what matters)

If any of these are unclear from the codebase, STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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 · 118 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 92fb00bc35e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quieter is a skill published in the GitHub repository childrentime/reactuse (1,048 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,249 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 2026-08-30.

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