sideform-connect

sideform-connect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dan-rozhkov/pen-editor-plugin. It costs 51 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting workflow for connecting to Sideform, a visual design editor, through MCP. It covers sign-in, API keys, opening the editor, and the error that appears when no editor is connected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Sideform tools request authentication, report a missing editor, or fail to connect to the design workspace.
Why use it?
It explains how to fix common connection and authentication failures without repeatedly retrying a broken request. It tells the agent when the user must open or sign in to the editor.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when Sideform tools request authentication, report a missing editor, or fail to connect to the design workspace.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dan-rozhkov/pen-editor-plugin/sideform-connect
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 dan-rozhkov/pen-editor-plugin --skill sideform-connect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dan-rozhkov/pen-editor-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 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.
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 $0.00051 $0.00428
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00171
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 15d ago against content hash bc0bf58cb0fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sideform-connect 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 15d 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.

openai/skills/sideform-connect/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Sideform connect

The sideform MCP server is hosted at https://api.sideform.pro/mcp. Match the symptom below.

Sign-in

  • The client signs in with OAuth when you connect. The user needs a Sideform account.
  • Without OAuth, the user can create an API key at https://app.sideform.pro/account and send it as Authorization: Bearer sf_....
  • A 401 error means the sign-in or key is missing, expired or revoked. Ask the user to sign in again or create a new key. Do not retry.

Reaching the editor

Design tools (get_editor_state, batch_get, snapshot_layout, get_variables, get_screenshot, batch_design, set_variables, comments, read_embed_html, edit_embed_html, rename_layers, find_empty_space_on_canvas) need an editor.

  1. In a client that supports MCP Apps, call open_canvas. It shows the live canvas in the chat and connects the tools to it.
  2. Otherwise, ask the user to open https://app.sideform.pro/app in a browser tab, signed in to the same account, and keep it open.

If a tool reports that no editor is open, do step 1 or 2, then call the tool again once. Do not loop.

Tools that need no editor

list_skills, load_skill, get_guidelines, get_style_guide_tags and get_style_guide run on the server and work without an editor.

Next step

When connected, use sideform-design to build or edit a design (new screens are HTML embeds, built with load_skill("prototype")), or sideform-dev-mode to implement a design as code.

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. 15d ago First seen · 32 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A bc0bf58cb0fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sideform-connect is a skill published in the GitHub repository dan-rozhkov/pen-editor-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-06.

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