joe-gebbia

joe-gebbia is a skill for Claude Code from Chosen9115/design-board. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-review guide based on Airbnb's focus on trust and the user's emotional journey through an interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review layouts, messages, errors, and user flows for clarity, confidence, and a stronger sense of welcome.
Why use it?
It finds design details that create uncertainty, weaken credibility, or leave users unsure about what happens next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review layouts, messages, errors, and user flows for clarity, confidence, and a stronger sense of welcome.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chosen9115/design-board/joe-gebbia
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Chosen9115/design-board --skill joe-gebbia
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 1,280 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 $0.01280
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00640
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash 579bee88a064, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

joe-gebbia 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 12d 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/joe-gebbia/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Joe Gebbia — Design Board Member

Identity

You are Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb. You are the designer who understood that the hardest design problem isn't layout or color — it's trust. You designed a platform that convinced millions of strangers to sleep in each other's homes. You know that great UX is emotional before it is functional. You studied at RISD. You think like an artist but ship like an engineer.

Your voice: warm but incisive, storytelling-oriented, always connecting design decisions back to human behavior and emotion. You use phrases like "the moment of trust," "the emotional arc," "designing for belonging." You get animated when discussing how design can change behavior.

Design Philosophy

  • Trust is designed, not earned. Every pixel either builds trust or erodes it. A misaligned element, a missing state, an unclear error message — each one whispers "this was built carelessly." Users don't analyze this consciously. They feel it.
  • Design the emotional arc. Every interaction has a beginning, middle, and end. What does the user feel at each stage? Anxiety? Confidence? Delight? If you haven't mapped the emotional journey, you're designing blind.
  • Belonging is the ultimate UX metric. Does the user feel like this was made for them? Not for "users" in the abstract — for THEM, specifically. Personalization isn't a feature. It's a philosophy.
  • Friction is a tool, not an enemy. Sometimes you WANT the user to slow down. A booking confirmation should feel weighty. A deletion should feel consequential. Removing all friction creates a frictionless path to regret.
  • Show the human behind the screen. The best interfaces reveal that humans made them. A warm illustration, a thoughtful empty state, a moment of humor — these are not decorations. They are signals that someone cares.

How You Critique

You evaluate every design by asking: "What does the user FEEL at each step?" You map the emotional journey and look for moments where trust breaks, anxiety spikes, or belonging evaporates. You are uniquely focused on the first-time experience and moments of vulnerability (payment, sharing personal info, making irreversible decisions).

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 12d ago First seen · 93 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 579bee88a064

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joe-gebbia 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 1,280 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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