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.
npx skills add connerkward/ckw-design-skill --skill design-philosophygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/connerkward/ckw-design-skillWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/connerkward/ckw-design-skill/design-philosophy)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/connerkward/ckw-design-skill/design-philosophy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/connerkward/ckw-design-skill/design-philosophy/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/connerkward/ckw-design-skill/design-philosophy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/connerkward/ckw-design-skill/design-philosophy.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00042 | $0.00397 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00198 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00079 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
design-philosophy 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 9d 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.
What it actually says
Design philosophy
Apply with design for high-concept work, campaigns, or when the user asks for a visual philosophy, manifesto, or art-like aesthetic. This skill guides creating a named movement and expressing it visually.
Visual philosophy (when creating "art" or high-concept work)
- Name the movement (1–2 words): e.g. "Brutalist Joy," "Chromatic Silence," "Metabolist Dreams."
- Articulate in 4–6 paragraphs how the philosophy manifests through: space and form; color and material; scale and rhythm; composition and balance; visual hierarchy. Avoid redundancy; each aspect once.
- Craftsmanship: Stress that the work should look meticulously crafted, labored over with care, the product of deep expertise — "painstaking attention," "master-level execution." Repeat this framing.
- Minimal text: Information lives in design, not paragraphs. Text sparse and essential; integrated as visual element.
- Creative space: Be specific about direction but concise so the executor can make high-level interpretive choices with the same level of craft.
For philosophy examples, see reference.md. The numbered checklist above is the canonical generation procedure.
Deducing the subtle reference
Before building: identify one subtle conceptual thread from the request. The topic is a subtle, niche reference embedded in the work — not literal, always sophisticated. Someone familiar with the subject should feel it intuitively; others experience a strong abstract composition. Weave it into form, color, and composition. "Jazz quote" principle: only those who know catch it; everyone benefits.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 24 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 724369f28494
design-philosophy is a skill published in the GitHub repository connerkward/ckw-design-skill (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 397 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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