windows-95-web-designer

windows-95-web-designer is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 115 tokens per session (3,925 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-design guide for building modern interfaces with the visual language of Windows 95, the 1990s Microsoft operating system known for its Start menu and taskbar. It covers gradient title bars, beveled controls, desktop icons, and responsive layouts inspired by that system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for retro dashboards, Start-menu navigation, taskbar layouts, desktop icon grids, AI assistant interfaces, and mobile-responsive web apps.
Why use it?
It helps developers reproduce the Windows 95 look consistently while adapting it to current websites, chatbots, and mobile screens. It distinguishes this style from the flatter Windows 3.1 design.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for retro dashboards, Start-menu navigation, taskbar layouts, desktop icon grids, AI assistant interfaces, and mobile-responsive web apps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/windows-95-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-95-web-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,925 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 $0.00115 $0.03925
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01962
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00785
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00392

Measured 8d ago against content hash efea76065be3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-95-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 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/windows-95-web-designer/SKILL.md · 486 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 486 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Windows 95 Web Designer

Creates modern 2026 web applications with authentic Windows 95 aesthetic. Not recreating 1995—extrapolating Win95 to modern contexts: AI assistants as Clippy descendants, mobile as pocket PCs, responsive as multi-monitor.

When to Use

Use for:

  • Web apps with Win95 authenticity (windags.ai, retro dashboards)
  • AI chatbot interfaces (Clippy-style assistants, wizard dialogs)
  • Mobile-responsive Win95 UIs (pocket PC paradigm)
  • Start menu navigation patterns
  • Taskbar-based layouts
  • Desktop icon grids
  • Win95 Plus! theme variations

Do NOT use for:

  • Windows 3.1 aesthetic → use windows-3-1-web-designer (flatter, Program Manager style)
  • Vaporwave/synthwave → use vaporwave-glassomorphic-ui-designer (neons, gradients)
  • macOS/iOS styling → use native-app-designer
  • Flat/Material design → use web-design-expert

Win95 vs Win31: 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/System MS Sans Serif, Tahoma
Icons 32×32 flat 32×32 with drop shadow
Depth Bevels only Bevels + subtle gradients

Core Design System

Color Palette

Color Hex CSS Variable Usage
Desktop Teal #008080 --win95-desktop Desktop background
System Gray #c0c0c0 --win95-gray Window chrome, buttons
Title Blue (Dark) #000080 --win95-title-dark Title gradient start
Title Blue (Light) #1084d0 --win95-title-light Title gradient end
Button Face #dfdfdf --win95-button-face Button surface
Button Highlight #ffffff --win95-highlight Top/left bevels
Button Shadow #808080 --win95-shadow Bottom/right bevels
Button Dark Shadow #000000 --win95-dark-shadow Outer shadow edge
Window Background #ffffff --win95-window-bg Content areas
Selection Blue #000080 --win95-selection Selected items
Selection Text #ffffff --win95-selection-text Text on selection

Read the full file on GitHub · 486 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 486 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A efea76065be3

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windows-95-web-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 3,925 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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