notifications-and-recovery

notifications-and-recovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to showing users what happened after an action and helping them recover when something goes wrong. It explains when to use messages such as toasts, inline errors, banners, dialogs, loading placeholders, and empty states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing forms, error states, success messages, background actions, loading screens, or in-place editing. It helps choose the right way to communicate each change in state.
Why use it?
It prevents users from wondering whether an action worked and gives them a clear next step after an error. It also helps avoid using an interruption when a small, temporary message is enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 54repo +2 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 65 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when designing forms, error states, success messages, background actions, loading screens, or in-place editing. It helps choose the right way to communicate each change in state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/notifications-and-recovery
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 notifications-and-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,205 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 $0.00065 $0.02205
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01103
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00220

Measured 12d ago against content hash fe6f9260ba80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notifications-and-recovery 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/notifications-and-recovery/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Notifications and Recovery

When something changes — success, failure, or anything in between — the user must know. And when something goes wrong, they must always have a path forward. A notification without a recovery action is just an apology.


Pattern Selection

Pattern When to use Dismissal
Toast Transient result of a user action (saved, sent, deleted) Auto-dismiss 4–6s, manual close
Inline error Field-level validation, form errors Clears on correction
Alert banner Persistent issue affecting the current context Manual dismiss or resolved state
Modal / dialog Blocking error requiring a decision before continuing User action required
Empty state No data yet — guide the user to the first action N/A
Skeleton / loading Async content pending Replaced by content
In-place confirmation Inline edit saved, row updated, item toggled Auto-clears after 2–3s

Toast Notifications

Toasts confirm that a background action completed. They appear without interrupting the user's flow.

Placement: bottom-center or bottom-right. Never top-center — it competes with page content and navigation.

Duration: 4–6 seconds for information. Errors should persist until dismissed — the user needs time to read and act.

Anatomy:

[Icon] Message text                    [Action] [×]
  • Icon: colour-coded (green ✓ success, red ✗ error, orange ⚠ warning, blue ℹ info)
  • Message: one sentence, plain language
  • Action (optional): "Undo", "Retry", "View" — one action maximum
  • Close button: always present on errors; optional on success
✓ "Changes saved."
✓ "Message sent.  [Undo]"
✗ "Could not save. Check your connection.  [Retry]"  ← persists until dismissed

Never: multiple simultaneous toasts. Queue them; show one at a time.


Inline Errors

Inline errors appear adjacent to the element that caused them. They are the most contextual and actionable form of error feedback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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 · 250 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A fe6f9260ba80

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notifications-and-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository dembrandt/dembrandt-skills (54 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,205 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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