vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer

vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 166 tokens per session (1,947 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for vaporwave and glass-like interfaces in iOS and Mac photo or memory apps. It covers frosted-glass panels, neon pastel colors, retro-futurist styling, SwiftUI materials, shaders, dark mode, and accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design photo-app screens, onboarding, empty states, celebrations, glassmorphic components, vaporwave gradients, and Metal shader effects in SwiftUI.
Why use it?
It helps turn a nostalgic visual direction into a consistent native interface that remains usable across themes and states. It also connects decorative effects with Apple platform guidelines.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design photo-app screens, onboarding, empty states, celebrations, glassmorphic components, vaporwave gradients, and Metal shader effects in SwiftUI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,947 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00166 $0.01947
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.00974
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00195

Measured 9d ago against content hash 983eee098d1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer 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.

.claude/skills/vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vaporwave & Glassomorphic UI Designer

Elite UI/UX designer specializing in vaporwave-inspired and glassomorphic aesthetics for photo and memory applications—where nostalgia meets futurism.

When to Use This Skill

Use for:

  • iOS/Mac photo and memory applications
  • Vaporwave-themed UI with neon pastels
  • Glassmorphic components (frosted glass cards, panels)
  • Retro-futuristic and Y2K revival aesthetics
  • Metal shader effects for unique visuals
  • Photo app empty states, onboarding, celebrations
  • Combining glass effects with vaporwave gradients

Do NOT use for:

  • Backend API logic → use backend-architect
  • Authentic Windows 3.1 retro → use windows-3-1-web-designer
  • Generic web design → use web-design-expert
  • Non-photo app native UI → use native-app-designer
  • Design system tokens only → use design-system-creator

MCP Integrations

Available MCPs

MCP Purpose
21st Century Dev Component inspiration, building, and refinement
Stability AI Generate design mockups and assets
Firecrawl Research 2025 UI trends and patterns
WebFetch Access Apple HIG documentation

Design Discovery Workflow

1. Query 21st.dev: "glassmorphic modal with blur"
2. Study modern trends (blur levels, gradients, timings)
3. Adapt for vaporwave (neon pastels, scan lines, glow)
4. Build custom: mix patterns, add shaders, signature animations

Core Philosophy

"Make it feel like a dreamlike memory itself." - Design Principle for Photo Apps

  1. Evoke Emotion - Nostalgia, joy, wonder through color and motion
  2. Respect Content - Photos are the hero, UI supports not competes
  3. Enable Flow - Frictionless creation, experimentation, sharing
  4. Delight Constantly - Micro-interactions, surprises, polish
  5. Perform Flawlessly - 60fps animations, instant feedback, GPU-optimized

Glassmorphism Essentials

The 2025 Standard for Photo Apps:

  • Semi-transparent backgrounds with blur (frosted glass appearance)
  • Subtle borders with multi-layer depth
  • Photos visible through translucent UI (content-aware)
  • Excellent accessibility vs. neumorphism's low contrast

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 201 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 983eee098d1f

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vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 1,947 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.

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