Prototype Designer

Prototype Designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daffy0208/ai-dev-standards. It costs 28 tokens per session (3,822 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for creating interactive prototypes that show how users move through a product before the real software is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design user flows, create clickable prototypes, test ideas with users, compare prototyping tools, and prepare a handoff to developers.
Why use it?
Testing a prototype can reveal confusing flows and incorrect assumptions earlier, when changes cost less than changing finished code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design user flows, create clickable prototypes, test ideas with users, compare prototyping tools, and prepare a handoff to developers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/prototype-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill prototype-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,822 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00028 $0.03822
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01911
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00764
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00382

Measured 6d ago against content hash cbe00d0cd7e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Prototype 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 6d ago.

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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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/prototype-designer/SKILL.md · 767 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 767 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prototype Designer

Validate ideas through interactive prototypes before writing code.

Core Principle

Test before you build.

Prototypes let you:

  • Validate assumptions
  • Test with real users
  • Iterate faster than code
  • Communicate ideas clearly
  • Reduce development waste

Phase 1: Choosing Prototyping Tools

Tool Comparison

Tool Best For Learning Curve Fidelity
Figma Full designs, collaboration Medium High
Framer Code-based, advanced interactions High Very High
ProtoPie Complex interactions, sensors Medium Very High
Adobe XD Adobe ecosystem users Low High
InVision Design handoff, simple clicks Low Medium
Axure Complex logic, documentation High High

Quick Start Recommendations

Beginner: Start with Figma

  • Built-in to design tool
  • No separate app needed
  • Intuitive interactions
  • Free for individuals

Advanced: Graduate to Framer or ProtoPie

  • More complex interactions
  • Variable support
  • Conditional logic
  • Sensor integration (mobile)

Phase 2: User Flow Design

What is a User Flow?

A user flow shows the path users take through your app to complete a task.

Example: User Registration Flow

Start
  ↓
Landing Page
  ↓
Click "Sign Up"
  ↓
Email Entry → Validation
  ↓ [Valid]
Password Entry → Validation
  ↓ [Valid]
Success Screen
  ↓
Onboarding Flow

Creating User Flows in Figma

1. Create Flow Frames:

Frames needed:
├── 01-landing
├── 02-signup-form
├── 03-email-verification
├── 04-success
└── 05-onboarding-step-1

2. Add Interactions:

Click "Sign Up" button → Navigate to 02-signup-form
Click "Submit" → Navigate to 03-email-verification
Click "Continue" → Navigate to 04-success

Read the full file on GitHub · 767 lines

Files

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.

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. 6d ago First seen · 767 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A cbe00d0cd7e0

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Prototype Designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository daffy0208/ai-dev-standards (36 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 3,822 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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