windows-3-1-web-designer

windows-3-1-web-designer is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (4,363 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-design guide for building modern interfaces that look and behave like Windows 3.1, an early 1990s Microsoft operating system. It covers Program Manager navigation, window layouts, dialog-style interfaces, and responsive versions of that visual language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for retro dashboards, documentation sites, AI chat interfaces, mobile-responsive designs, and web apps with tiled or cascading windows.
Why use it?
It helps developers apply a specific historical design style to current websites and web apps without confusing it with the later Windows 95 look. It also explains how the style can fit chatbots and mobile layouts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for retro dashboards, documentation sites, AI chat interfaces, mobile-responsive designs, and web apps with tiled or cascading windows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/windows-3-1-web-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 windows-3-1-web-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 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,363 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 $0.00124 $0.04363
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.02181
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00873
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00436

Measured 9d ago against content hash fed75582ae37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-3-1-web-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/windows-3-1-web-designer/SKILL.md · 544 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 544 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Windows 3.1 Web Designer

Creates modern 2026 web applications with authentic Windows 3.1 aesthetic. Not recreating 1992—extrapolating Win31 to modern contexts: AI assistants as Cue Card systems, mobile as pocket organizers, responsive as tiled MDI windows.

When to Use

Use for:

  • Web apps with Win31 authenticity (documentation sites, retro dashboards)
  • AI chatbot interfaces (Cue Card-style assistants, wizard dialogs)
  • Mobile-responsive Win31 UIs (pocket computing paradigm)
  • Program Manager navigation patterns
  • Tiled/cascading window layouts
  • MDI (Multiple Document Interface) applications
  • Hotdog Stand mode easter eggs

Do NOT use for:

  • Windows 95 aesthetic → use windows-95-web-designer (gradients, Start menu, taskbar)
  • Vaporwave/synthwave → use vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer (neons, gradients)
  • macOS/iOS styling → use native-app-designer
  • Flat/Material design → use web-design-expert

Win31 vs Win95: Critical Differences

Feature Windows 3.1 Windows 95
Title bar Solid navy (#000080) Gradient (dark→light blue)
Window controls Single menu button Three buttons (−, □, ×)
Navigation Program Manager Start Menu + Taskbar
Fonts Bitmap/VT323 MS Sans Serif, Tahoma
Icons 32×32 flat 32×32 with drop shadow
Depth Bevels only Bevels + subtle gradients
AI style Cue Cards, Wizards Clippy character

Core Design System

Color Palette

Color Hex CSS Variable Usage
System Gray #c0c0c0 --win31-gray THE primary background
Dark Gray #808080 --win31-dark-gray Shadows, pressed states
Light Gray #dfdfdf --win31-light-gray Highlights
Navy #000080 --win31-navy Title bar (SOLID, no gradient)
Teal #008080 --win31-teal Desktop, links, highlights
White #ffffff --win31-white Beveled highlights, inputs
Black #000000 --win31-black Beveled shadows, borders

Read the full file on GitHub · 544 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 544 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A fed75582ae37

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windows-3-1-web-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 4,363 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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