aod-foundation

A guided workshop for defining a new project's product vision and visual design identity. It can create vision, branding, design-token, and design-rule files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after project initialization to answer vision questions, choose a design archetype, and generate the project's vision and brand files.
Why use it?
It replaces placeholder project content with shared decisions about the product's purpose, brand, colors, typography, and design boundaries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit/aod-foundation
Any agent
npx skills add davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit --skill aod-foundation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,530 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00098 $0.05530
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02765
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00553

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7afe38152eb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aod-foundation 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to aod-foundation — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/aod-foundation/SKILL.md · 533 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 533 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/aod.foundation Skill

Purpose

Guided post-init workshop with two parts:

  • Part 1 (Vision): 5 storytelling-arc questions that populate product-vision.md
  • Part 2 (Design): Archetype browser that generates brands/{project-name}/ files

Run after make init to replace placeholder markers with real content.


Step 0: Parse Flags

Parse --vision and --design flags from the user's arguments.

  1. If arguments contain --vision:
    • Set vision_only = true
    • Strip --vision from arguments
  2. If arguments contain --design:
    • Set design_only = true
    • Strip --design from arguments
  3. If neither flag is present:
    • Set run_both = true (full workshop)
  4. If both flags are present:
    • Treat as run_both = true (equivalent to no flags)

Step 1: State Detection

Detect the current project state to determine which parts to activate and whether this is a first-run or re-run.

1a: Derive Project Name

Use this ordered fallback to determine {project-name}:

  1. Repository directory name: Run basename $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) — use this if it yields a non-empty value
  2. CLAUDE.md PROJECT_NAME: Read CLAUDE.md, grep for a line matching PROJECT_NAME that does NOT contain {{PROJECT_NAME}} (the un-replaced placeholder). Extract the value.
  3. AskUserQuestion fallback: If neither source yields a usable name, ask: "What is your project name?" with a text input.

Sanitize the derived name to kebab-case: lowercase, replace spaces/underscores with hyphens, strip non-alphanumeric/non-hyphen characters.

Store as project_name for use throughout the workshop.

1b: Check Vision State

Read docs/product/01_Product_Vision/product-vision.md:

  • If the file does not exist: Set vision_state = "missing" — Part 1 will create from scratch
  • If the file contains [To be refined or [To be defined: Set vision_state = "placeholder" — Part 1 activates normally
  • If the file exists with no placeholder markers: Set vision_state = "populated" — Part 1 enters re-run mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 533 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. 3d ago First seen · 533 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 7afe38152eb1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aod-foundation is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidmatousek/agentic-oriented-development-kit (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 5,530 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to aod-foundation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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