design-explorer

A visual design workflow for exploring several interface directions and turning a chosen direction into a design system or working HTML and CSS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for UI redesigns, design variants, design systems, mockups, and production-ready HTML/CSS.
Why use it?
It helps developers make informed visual choices before committing to one design and catches weak layout or styling decisions.

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/code-saurabh/openskills/design-explorer
Any agent
npx skills add CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills --skill design-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,809 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 $0.00063 $0.06809
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.03404
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00681

Measured 2d ago against content hash a6e770d6dd2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-explorer 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.

design-explorer/SKILL.md · 737 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 737 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Explorer Skill

A full-spectrum visual design partner. Combines the rapid variant generation of /design-shotgun, the systematic quality of /design-html, and the consultative rigour of /design-consultation into one unified, opinionated workflow.


When to Invoke This Skill

Invoke proactively when the user:

  • Asks to "explore", "brainstorm", or "show options" for any UI or visual element
  • Shares a screenshot or mockup and wants to improve or redesign it
  • Describes a new feature and hasn't yet seen what it could look like
  • Says "I don't like how this looks" without specifying what to change
  • Wants a design system, component library, or style guide built from scratch
  • Needs a mockup converted to production-quality HTML/CSS
  • Asks for feedback on aesthetics, typography, colour, spacing, or layout
  • Wants to compare two or more design directions before committing

Phase 0 — Understand Before You Generate

Before producing a single variant, collect enough signal to avoid generic output.

0.1 Context Gathering Checklist

Ask (or infer from context) the following — do NOT skip any item:

  1. Target audience — who will use this? Consumer, B2B enterprise, developer, child, elderly?
  2. Emotional register — what feeling should the design evoke? (Calm trust / playful energy / raw power / quiet luxury / technical precision)
  3. Existing brand constraints — logo, existing colours, fonts, or brand guidelines in scope?
  4. Technical target — web (viewport width?), iOS, Android, desktop app, embedded screen, print?
  5. Reference taste — ask the user to name 2–3 products, sites, or apps they find well-designed. This seeds the Taste Memory (§3).
  6. Anti-references — ask what designs they actively dislike. Slop detection depends on this.
  7. Phase of work — early exploration (anything goes) or late refinement (stay on-brand)?

If the session context already contains prior taste memory or approved variants, load that data instead of asking again.

Read the full file on GitHub · 737 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 · 737 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A a6e770d6dd2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 6,809 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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