spec-to-prototype

spec-to-prototype is a skill for Claude Code from davistroy/claude-marketplace. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,951 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning design specifications, wireframes, or component documentation into a visual HTML/CSS prototype. The result is a standalone demo rather than a working application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create shareable mockups for stakeholder presentations, design validation, and early product discussions.
Why use it?
It helps teams review an interface idea before building production software or connecting real data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the personal-plugin plugin — 29 skills, 23 commands, 10 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create shareable mockups for stakeholder presentations, design validation, and early product discussions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davistroy/claude-marketplace/spec-to-prototype
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add davistroy/claude-marketplace --skill spec-to-prototype
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davistroy/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install personal-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 23 commands, 10 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,951 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 $0.00106 $0.01951
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00195

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4c7945fb36e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-to-prototype 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 8d 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.

plugins/personal-plugin/skills/spec-to-prototype/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-to-Prototype Builder

Build self-contained HTML/CSS visual prototypes from specification documents. Produces shareable single-file demos with realistic data and navigation — no backend, no build tools, no framework dependencies.

When to Use

  • User has a spec, reference doc, design system doc, or component description
  • Goal is a visual demo, not a functional application
  • Stakeholder presentations, design validation, or vision casting
  • User says "prototype", "mockup", "dummy UI", "visual demo"

Not for: Production apps, functional forms, real data integration, or creative/original UI design (use frontend-design skill directly for those).

Process

digraph prototype_flow {
  rankdir=TB;
  node [shape=box, style=rounded];

  read [label="1. Read & analyze spec"];
  identify [label="2. Identify prototypable views"];
  ask [label="3. Ask clarifying questions\n(batched, one AskUserQuestion call)"];
  design [label="4. Invoke frontend-design skill"];
  build [label="5. Build single HTML file"];
  test [label="6. Test in browser"];
  fix [label="7. Fix issues found"];
  done [label="Deliver"];

  read -> identify -> ask -> design -> build -> test;
  test -> fix [label="issues"];
  fix -> test;
  test -> done [label="clean"];
}

Step 1 — Read the Spec

Read the full spec document. Extract:

  • Components/elements described (with names, anatomy, behaviors)
  • Layout structure (shells, sidebars, content areas, navigation)
  • Visual language (colors, typography, spacing, icons mentioned)
  • Data model (what entities exist, what fields they have)
  • Interaction patterns (what opens what, navigation flows)

Step 2 — Identify Prototypable Views

Determine what can be shown as static views. Propose 2-3 options to the user:

  • Which views/scenarios best showcase the spec?
  • Which combination hits the most components?
  • What's the minimum set of views for maximum stakeholder impact?

Step 3 — Ask Clarifying Questions

Ask the four essential questions in one AskUserQuestion call — this is a short scoping exchange before a build, not an interview, and batching costs the user one interaction instead of four:

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 8d ago First seen · 167 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 4c7945fb36e2

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spec-to-prototype is a skill published in the GitHub repository davistroy/claude-marketplace (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,951 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 2026-09-04.

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