matilha-design

matilha-design is a skill for Claude Code from danilods/matilha-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,024 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that guides user-interface and user-experience decisions using design principles and, when available, specialized design skills. It can help with layouts, forms, accessibility, errors, and other product flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing interface components, improving forms and error messages, reducing mental effort, checking accessibility, and making broader visual-design decisions.
Why use it?
It gives design questions a structured review and routes them to more focused guidance when the project provides it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the matilha plugin — 12 skills, 10 commands, 2 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Choosing interface components, improving forms and error messages, reducing mental effort, checking accessibility, and making broader visual-design decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danilods/matilha-skills/matilha-design
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 danilods/matilha-skills --skill matilha-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danilods/matilha-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install matilha, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 10 commands, 2 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,024 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 $0.00043 $0.01024
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00512
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00102

Measured 11d ago against content hash cb1ae5ef4c18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

matilha-design 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 11d 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.

skills/matilha-design/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When this fires

User asks "how should this look?", "is this UX good?", "what component to use?", or is about to commit design-level changes. Cross-phase; most useful in Phase 20/30 spec authoring and Phase 40 execution.

Preconditions

  • None (works at any phase).

Execution Workflow

  1. Pack detection: Inspect the ambient skill list for skills with plugin namespace matching matilha-*-pack (e.g., matilha-ux-pack:*, matilha-growth-pack:*, matilha-design-pack:* if installed). Group by plugin namespace. See skills/matilha-compose/SKILL.md for the canonical detection logic.

  2. Intent classification: Does the user's design question touch cognitive load, error presentation, forms, accessibility, visual perception, growth-relevant moments (signup, paywall, activation), or broader design-system concerns? Use pack skill descriptions to inform the decision. Classify per pack: yes / no / partial.

  3. Route based on intent:

    • Narrow intent (e.g., "which form component?", "what error format?"): invoke the single most relevant pack skill directly via the Skill tool. No preamble needed.
    • Exploratory intent (e.g., "how should this flow feel?", "is this UX good?"): if superpowers:brainstorming available AND ≥1 pack classified yes, build preamble per matilha-compose Step 4 template, emit it, then invoke brainstorming via Skill tool.
    • No packs installed OR packs irrelevant: apply core heuristics inline — simplicity (Krug Fato 1), recognition > recall (Weinschenk), progressive disclosure, consistent navigation, 5-rule error format.
  4. Emit design guidance linked to the user's current task.

Rules: Do

  • Prefer companion-pack skills when available (they carry neuroscience-backed depth).
  • Cite sources in core heuristics (Weinschenk, Krug, wiki concept pages).
  • Keep advice specific to the user's artifact.

Rules: Don't

  • Make subjective "good/bad" claims without evidence.
  • Override user's explicit aesthetic_direction in project-status.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 11d ago First seen · 83 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A cb1ae5ef4c18

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matilha-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository danilods/matilha-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,024 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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