preview-widget

preview-widget is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ChunkyTofuStudios/flutter-skills. It costs 210 tokens per session (2,953 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for viewing one Flutter widget by itself in Flutter's Widget Previewer. Flutter is a framework for building app interfaces; the preview uses the project's real theme and data providers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to preview and screenshot one widget while refining its layout, styling, and behavior in a Flutter project.
Why use it?
It lets you adjust a single component without starting the whole app or following a complete user flow. This makes small visual changes and light, dark, or tablet variants easier to compare.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import '../preview_wrapper.dart';.

Good fit Use it to preview and screenshot one widget while refining its layout, styling, and behavior in a Flutter project.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChunkyTofuStudios/flutter-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chunkytofustudios/flutter-skills/preview-widget

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin preview-widget/plugin install preview-widget after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 210 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,953 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 $0.00210 $0.02953
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.01477
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00295

Measured 8d ago against content hash 23b6c47ac3c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preview-widget 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/check_preview_support.sh, scripts/list_previews.sh, scripts/screenshot_preview.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/preview-widget/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preview a Flutter widget in isolation

Render a single widget in Flutter's Widget Previewer so you and the human can iterate on it — design tweaks, light/dark variants, tablet sizing — without booting the full app. The agent screenshots the live preview headlessly; the human optionally opens the same localhost URL in their own Chrome to follow along.

When to use this

All three must hold — if any is false, this skill is the wrong tool:

  1. The project is a Flutter project (pubspec.yaml at the cwd, lib/ exists).
  2. Flutter ≥ 3.35 is on PATH (or via fvm flutter). The previewer is experimental on stable but stable enough to design against; older Flutters don't have it.
  3. The user wants to iterate on a single widget, not a full screen or end-to-end flow. Full-screen visual work is what design-polish + android-emulator is for.

Setup (caller's machine)

Requirement How to satisfy
Flutter ≥ 3.35 Run bash scripts/check_preview_support.sh — fails loudly with an upgrade hint if too old. Override the Flutter binary with FLUTTER_BIN=… (default: flutter, falls back to fvm flutter).
Google Chrome / Chromium Used headlessly by screenshot_preview.sh to capture previews. macOS picks up /Applications/Google Chrome.app automatically; on Linux any of google-chrome, chromium, chromium-browser on PATH works. Override with CHROME_BIN=/path/to/chrome.
bash 3.2+ (macOS default), awk, grep, find Standard. No Python or Node needed.

There's no per-machine auth, account, or token — everything runs on localhost.

Bundled scripts

  • scripts/check_preview_support.sh — verifies Flutter ≥ 3.35 and prints the resolved binary + version. Exit 0 = ready, exit 1 = version too old, exit 127 = no Flutter found.
  • scripts/start_preview.sh — launches flutter widget-preview start in the background, parses the URL out of its log, and writes a small JSON state file. Idempotent: re-runs return the existing URL. --stop tears the server down. Default state dir: ./.preview-widget/ (override with PREVIEW_WIDGET_STATE_DIR).
  • scripts/screenshot_preview.sh — headless-Chrome screenshot of the running previewer. Flags: --out <path>, --size WxH (default 1600x2400), --wait <ms> (virtual-time budget, default 10000), --url <url> (override the state file). Prints the absolute output path on stdout.
  • scripts/list_previews.sh — greps lib/ for @Preview(...), @<Custom>Preview(...), and extends (Multi)?Preview definitions so you don't re-add what's already there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 8d ago First seen · 184 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A 23b6c47ac3c0

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preview-widget is a skill published in the GitHub repository ChunkyTofuStudios/flutter-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session and 2,953 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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