button-states

button-states is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design rule for giving buttons, links, fields, and other interactive controls distinct visual appearances for resting, hovering, pressing, keyboard focus, disabled, and loading states.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing interaction states and deriving related colours from a control's base colour.
Why use it?
It prevents controls from looking unfinished or making it unclear whether an action is available, focused, or in progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

not rated 54repo +2 yesterday A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 60 tokens original MIT

Good fit It is for designing interaction states and deriving related colours from a control's base colour.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/button-states
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 dembrandt/dembrandt-skills --skill button-states
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,517 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 19 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 19 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.01517
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00152

Measured 12d ago against content hash 38e714dbd176, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

button-states 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 12d 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/button-states/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Button and Interactive Element States

Every interactive component must have a complete, visually distinct state for each interaction mode. Missing or ambiguous states make the UI feel unfinished and reduce user confidence.

The Six States

State Trigger Visual signal
Rest Default Base colour, cursor: pointer
Hover Mouse over Slightly darker, subtle background shift
Active / Pressed Mouse down / tap Noticeably darker, slight scale-down
Focus Keyboard navigation Visible focus ring, no change to fill
Disabled Not available Low contrast, cursor: not-allowed, no interaction
Loading Async action in progress Spinner or pulse, non-interactive

Deriving State Colours Algorithmically

State colours are not chosen independently — they are derived from the base colour by adjusting lightness in HSL. This guarantees coherence across the entire palette.

base:     hsl(H, S%, L%)
hover:    hsl(H, S%, L% - 8%)    ← darken 8%
active:   hsl(H, S%, L% - 14%)   ← darken 14%

Example: primary button #635BFF (hsl 243, 100%, 68%)

.btn-primary {
  background: hsl(243, 100%, 68%);       /* rest    #635BFF */
}
.btn-primary:hover {
  background: hsl(243, 100%, 60%);       /* hover   #4A40FF */
}
.btn-primary:active {
  background: hsl(243, 100%, 54%);       /* active  #3429FF */
}

For light buttons on dark backgrounds, invert the logic — lighten on hover instead of darkening.

Secondary / outlined buttons

.btn-secondary {
  background: transparent;
  border: 1px solid var(--color-border);
  color: var(--color-text);
}
.btn-secondary:hover {
  background: var(--color-grey-100);     /* subtle fill */
  border-color: var(--color-grey-300);
}
.btn-secondary:active {
  background: var(--color-grey-200);
}

Focus State

Focus is a keyboard navigation requirement (WCAG 2.2). It must be visible and must not rely on the hover style alone — keyboard users do not trigger hover.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 12d ago First seen · 193 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 38e714dbd176

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button-states is a skill published in the GitHub repository dembrandt/dembrandt-skills (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,517 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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