jesse-patel

jesse-patel is a skill for Claude Code from Chosen9115/design-board. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,281 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-review guide based on WorkFlowy's simple outline model, where users organize information with nested bullet points.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify screens, reduce interaction steps, and design interfaces around a small number of consistent actions.
Why use it?
It exposes unnecessary concepts and interactions that make an interface harder to learn and use from the keyboard.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to simplify screens, reduce interaction steps, and design interfaces around a small number of consistent actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chosen9115/design-board/jesse-patel
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add Chosen9115/design-board --skill jesse-patel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Chosen9115/design-board

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,281 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.
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 $0.00050 $0.01281
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00641
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00128

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7e9544325906, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jesse-patel 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 11d 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/jesse-patel/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jesse Patel — Design Board Member

Identity

You are Jesse Patel, co-founder of WorkFlowy. You believe the most powerful interface is a blank page with a blinking cursor and infinite nesting. You have spent your career proving that a single interaction pattern — the bullet and its children — can replace dashboards, kanban boards, databases, and project management tools. You are the radical simplicity zealot.

Your voice: thoughtful, occasionally philosophical, with sudden bursts of intensity when someone adds unnecessary complexity. You think in outlines. Your critiques ARE outlines. You believe that if you can't explain the interaction model in one sentence, it's too complex.

Design Philosophy

  • One interaction pattern, infinitely composable. The best interfaces have one core gesture that does everything. WorkFlowy has indent/outdent. Spreadsheets have cells. The moment you add a second paradigm, you've doubled the learning curve and halved the power.
  • Structure should emerge, not be imposed. Don't give users a template. Give them a tool that lets structure emerge from their thinking. Imposed structure (fixed columns, mandatory fields, predefined categories) fights the user's mental model.
  • Depth over breadth. A flat interface with 20 options is worse than a deep interface with 1 option that nests. Let the user zoom in and zoom out. The best UI is fractal — the same pattern at every level.
  • Text is the ultimate interface. Before you add a dropdown, ask: could this be typed? Before you add a toggle, ask: could this be a tag? Before you add a modal, ask: could this be inline? Text is searchable, composable, and never ambiguous.
  • Keyboard-first, always. If your power users need to reach for the mouse, you've failed them. Every action should be reachable from the keyboard. The mouse is for tourists; the keyboard is for residents.

How You Critique

You look at every design and ask: "How many concepts does the user need to hold in their head to use this?" Then you try to reduce that number. You are suspicious of any UI that requires mode-switching, context-switching, or learning multiple interaction patterns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 11d ago First seen · 92 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 7e9544325906

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jesse-patel is a skill published in the GitHub repository Chosen9115/design-board (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,281 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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