canon-menus

canon-menus is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing and reviewing menus, dropdowns, selection lists, autocomplete fields, and action buttons. It explains when each pattern is appropriate and how it should work with keyboards and screen readers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between an action menu, list of options, autocomplete field, or navigation dropdown, then review its roles, positioning, nesting, and keyboard behaviour.
Why use it?
It helps prevent different controls from being given the wrong structure, which can confuse users and accessibility software.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose between an action menu, list of options, autocomplete field, or navigation dropdown, then review its roles, positioning, nesting, and keyboard behaviour.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/canon/canon-menus
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 Dragoon0x/canon --skill canon-menus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/canon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,320 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 $0.00108 $0.02320
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01160
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00232

Measured 10d ago against content hash 21973570ee4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canon-menus 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 10d 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.

source/skills/canon-menus/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CANON · Menus

The word "menu" is overloaded. Pick the right pattern and the accessibility falls into place.

Pattern What it is Use when
Menu (actions) List of actions Rename, Delete, Duplicate. Kebab/overflow menus.
Listbox List of options Selecting one or more values. Native <select> is the default.
Combobox Text input + list Typing narrows choices (country picker, tag selector)
Navigation dropdown Disclosure + links Site nav with sub-sections

Using the wrong role breaks screen readers. A menu of links is navigation, not a menu. A list of options to choose from is a listbox, not a menu.

Actions menu (the common case)

Triggered by a button. Contains items that perform actions. Disappears on select.

<button
  type="button"
  aria-haspopup="menu"
  aria-expanded="false"
  aria-controls="actions-menu"
  id="actions-trigger"
>
  Actions <svg aria-hidden="true">...</svg>
</button>

<div
  role="menu"
  id="actions-menu"
  aria-labelledby="actions-trigger"
  hidden
>
  <button role="menuitem">Edit</button>
  <button role="menuitem">Duplicate</button>
  <hr role="separator" aria-orientation="horizontal">
  <button role="menuitem" class="destructive">Delete</button>
</div>

Required ARIA

Element Attribute Value
Trigger button aria-haspopup "menu"
Trigger button aria-expanded "true" / "false"
Trigger button aria-controls id of the menu
Menu container role "menu"
Menu container aria-labelledby id of the trigger
Menu item role "menuitem", "menuitemcheckbox", or "menuitemradio"
Separator role "separator"

Keyboard — the WAI-ARIA menu pattern

Key Behavior
Enter / Space / ArrowDown (on trigger) Opens menu, focuses first item
ArrowUp (on trigger) Opens menu, focuses last item
ArrowDown / ArrowUp (in menu) Move focus between items, wraps at ends
Home / End First / last item
Enter / Space (on item) Activate item
Escape Close menu, return focus to trigger
Tab Close menu, move focus to next page element
Typing a character Jump to item starting with that letter

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 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. 10d ago First seen · 261 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 21973570ee4f

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canon-menus is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,320 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 2026-08-31.

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