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.
npx skills add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills --skill real-world-metaphorsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/real-world-metaphors.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00064 | $0.01227 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00613 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00245 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00123 |
Grade A, and why
real-world-metaphors 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Real-World Metaphors in UI
UI patterns borrowed from the physical world reduce the learning curve because users already know how they work. A card feels like something you can pick up. A carousel feels like flipping through a stack. A drawer feels like it slides out from the side. These metaphors carry affordance — the user knows what to do before reading any instructions.
Use them deliberately, not decoratively.
Common Metaphors and When to Use Them
Card
A card is a bounded, self-contained unit of content — like a physical index card or a product on a shelf.
Use when:
- Content items are discrete and comparable (products, people, articles, tasks)
- Each item needs to be scanned quickly and potentially acted on
- Items benefit from a visual thumbnail, image, or icon
Key properties:
- Cards should be graspable: elevation (
--shadow-sm), border-radius, and clear boundary - All cards in a set should be the same width; height can vary with content
- One primary action per card — secondary actions appear on hover or inside a detail view
- Cards imply "I can pick this up and do something with it" — if nothing happens on click, use a list instead
Carousel / Horizontal Scroll
A carousel borrows from the physical act of flipping through a stack or sliding items along a rail.
Use when:
- There are more items than fit the viewport and browsing is the primary mode
- Items have a natural visual order (steps, featured content, media)
- The user is expected to explore, not to find a specific item
Caution:
- Carousels hide content — important items should not live only inside a carousel
- Auto-advancing carousels reduce user control; prefer user-driven navigation
- On mobile, a horizontal scroll without explicit navigation dots feels more natural than arrows
Drawer / Side Panel
A drawer slides in from an edge, like a physical desk drawer — it brings additional context without replacing the current view.
Use when:
- Secondary detail is needed without losing context of the main view
- Editing or configuring an item while keeping the list visible behind
- Mobile navigation patterns (hamburger menu opens a side drawer)
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 131 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 017c471258e5
real-world-metaphors is a skill published in the GitHub repository dembrandt/dembrandt-skills (54 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,227 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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