form-follows-function

form-follows-function is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Deibler/universal-design-principles. It costs 135 tokens per session (2,545 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for deciding how much visual styling a product or feature should have, from plain and functional to highly expressive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing visual designs, choosing an aesthetic direction, and deciding whether added visual effects help a feature.
Why use it?
It helps teams evaluate decorative choices against usability and the product’s purpose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the aesthetics-and-emotion-principles plugin — 17 skills shipped together

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/deibler/universal-design-principles/form-follows-function
Any agent
npx skills add Deibler/universal-design-principles --skill form-follows-function
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Deibler/universal-design-principles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aesthetics-and-emotion-principles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for form-follows-function

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/deibler/universal-design-principles/form-follows-function"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/deibler/universal-design-principles/form-follows-function.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,545 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00135 $0.02545
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01273
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00254

Measured 5d ago against content hash bf2a79abe843, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

form-follows-function 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 5d 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/aesthetics-and-emotion-principles/skills/form-follows-function/SKILL.md · 151 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 151 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A bf2a79abe843

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form-follows-function is a skill published in the GitHub repository Deibler/universal-design-principles (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 2,545 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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