turbo-morphing

turbo-morphing is a skill for Claude Code from davidteren/hotwire-codex-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for using Turbo 8 page refreshes that update only changed parts of a page while preserving some screen state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding Turbo refreshes, morphing, or live broadcasts to a Ruby on Rails application.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose between a full morphing refresh and targeted updates, while avoiding issues such as reset popovers, jumped scrolling, or broken JavaScript widgets.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the hotwire-codex-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding Turbo refreshes, morphing, or live broadcasts to a Ruby on Rails application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidteren/hotwire-codex-skills/turbo-morphing
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 davidteren/hotwire-codex-skills --skill turbo-morphing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidteren/hotwire-codex-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hotwire-codex-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 919 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 $0.00108 $0.00919
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00092

Measured 11d ago against content hash b8765992eca9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

turbo-morphing 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/lint_morphing.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/turbo-morphing/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Turbo 8 morphing & page refreshes

Turbo 8 added a second update model alongside targeted Turbo Streams: page refreshes with morphing. Render the current page again (e.g. submit → redirect back) and Turbo morphs only the changed DOM via idiomorph, preserving screen state. It's the simpler "happy path" — but it has sharp edges. This skill helps you pick the right tool and avoid the footguns.

Full background: references/morphing-guide.md. Real-world note: piazza-web/wip/analysis/08-turbo8-morphing-refreshes.md.

When to use

  • Adding turbo_refreshes_with method: :morph, scroll: :preserve.
  • Broadcasting live updates and considering broadcasts_refreshes vs targeted streams.
  • Morphing resets UI state (a <details> reopens for everyone, a popover closes, scroll jumps, a JS-initialized widget breaks) after a refresh/broadcast.
  • Reviewing a PR that enables morphing, especially in the global layout.

Decision guide

Need Use
Submit-and-redirect-back with many small scattered changes morph page refresh: turbo_refreshes_with method: :morph
Live multi-user updates, simplest server code, "good enough" fidelity broadcasts_refreshes + turbo_stream_from @record
High-fidelity append/prepend (chat), surgical control targeted streams (broadcast_append_to, etc.)
Reload one region during a full-page refresh / explicit .reload() frame with refresh="morph"
Morph a single element instead of replacing it turbo_stream.replace id, ..., method: :morph

Mantra (37signals): morphing is an implementation detail of a page refresh, not a new partial-update tool. Use targeted streams when you need precision.

broadcasts_refreshes (the simplification)

class Listing < ApplicationRecord
  broadcasts_refreshes      # after create/update/destroy → <turbo-stream action="refresh">
end
<%= turbo_stream_from @listing %>
<%= turbo_refreshes_with method: :morph, scroll: :preserve %>

Async via Turbo::Streams::BroadcastJob (needs a job backend), auto-debounced (only the last of a burst), and self-refreshes are deduped via X-Turbo-Request-Id.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 75 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A b8765992eca9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

turbo-morphing is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidteren/hotwire-codex-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 919 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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