win31-pixel-art-designer

win31-pixel-art-designer is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (3,600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for making icons, banners, splash screens, cursors, and other graphics in the visual style of Windows 3.1, an early 1990s Microsoft operating system. It uses small images, limited colors, and patterned shading to match that era.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or adapt pixel-art assets for retro applications, games, and interfaces, including Program Manager-style icons and toolbar graphics.
Why use it?
It helps modern graphics look intentionally authentic under the strict size and color limits of old computer displays. It also avoids accidentally mixing the Windows 3.1 look with newer retro styles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create or adapt pixel-art assets for retro applications, games, and interfaces, including Program Manager-style icons and toolbar graphics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/win31-pixel-art-designer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill win31-pixel-art-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 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,600 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 $0.00102 $0.03600
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01800
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00720
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00360

Measured 8d ago against content hash c60fb416c3dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

win31-pixel-art-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 8d 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/win31-pixel-art-designer/SKILL.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Win31 Pixel Art Designer

Expert in creating authentic Windows 3.1 era pixel art, icons, splash screens, and program banners. Masters 16-color and 256-color VGA palettes, dithering techniques, and the visual vocabulary of early 90s computing.

When to Use

Use for:

  • Program Manager-style application icons (32x32, 16x16)
  • Splash screens and "About" dialog graphics
  • Banner art for Win31-themed applications
  • Custom cursor and toolbar graphics
  • Converting modern art to authentic retro style
  • Understanding color limitations and dithering

Do NOT use for:

  • CSS/web styling → windows-3-1-web-designer
  • Modern flat icons → web-design-expert
  • Vaporwave aesthetic → vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer
  • High-resolution illustrations → native-app-designer

The Win31 Visual Vocabulary

Icon Specifications

Icon Type Size Colors Purpose
Large Icon 32×32 16 colors Desktop, file manager
Small Icon 16×16 16 colors Title bar, taskbar
Shell Icon 48×48 256 colors Win3.11/early Win95
Cursor 32×32 2 colors (B/W) Mouse pointers

The 16-Color Windows Palette

This is the EXACT palette Windows 3.1 used. Deviation breaks authenticity.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Standard 16-Color VGA Palette (Win31)               │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  #000000  Black         #808080  Dark Gray           │
│  #800000  Dark Red      #FF0000  Red                 │
│  #008000  Dark Green    #00FF00  Green               │
│  #808000  Dark Yellow   #FFFF00  Yellow              │
│  #000080  Dark Blue     #0000FF  Blue                │
│  #800080  Dark Magenta  #FF00FF  Magenta             │
│  #008080  Dark Cyan     #00FFFF  Cyan                │
│  #C0C0C0  Light Gray    #FFFFFF  White               │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Key insight: #C0C0C0 (Light Gray) is THE system color. It appears everywhere.

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 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 · 365 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A c60fb416c3dc

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win31-pixel-art-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 3,600 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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