canon-navigation

canon-navigation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,782 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to organising the ways people move through an interface, including top bars, sidebars, breadcrumbs, footer links, and mobile menus. It covers page location, available destinations, returning, keyboard use, and active states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a navigation layout, show the current section, design mobile menus, add breadcrumbs or skip links, and review keyboard access.
Why use it?
It helps prevent users from getting lost or being unable to tell where they are in a site or app.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose a navigation layout, show the current section, design mobile menus, add breadcrumbs or skip links, and review keyboard access.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,782 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 $0.00082 $0.01782
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00891
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00178

Measured 9d ago against content hash 94097e053472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canon-navigation 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 9d 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-navigation/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.

CANON · Navigation

Navigation is a promise: where am I, where can I go, how do I get back. Break any of the three and the user is lost.

Structural rules

Every page must answer three questions visually and semantically:

  1. Where am I? — active state in the nav, breadcrumb or page title
  2. Where else can I go? — primary nav visible or reachable in one tap
  3. How do I go back? — browser back always works; "back" actions never leave them stranded

Top bar vs sidebar

Pattern Use when Don't use when
Top bar ≤ 7 top-level sections, marketing, simple apps > 7 sections, deep hierarchies
Sidebar Apps with 8+ sections or nested nav, dashboards Marketing pages, content-heavy reads
Hybrid (top + left) Product with global sections + workspace nav Simple apps — overkill
Bottom tab bar (mobile) Apps with 3–5 primary sections Web-first experiences, > 5 sections

Active state — not optional

Every nav item has two states at minimum: default and active. "Active" means "you are here." It must be unmistakable at a glance.

Active state options, in order of clarity:

  1. Filled background + contrasting text
  2. Left or bottom border in brand color (2–3px)
  3. Bolder weight + color shift
  4. Underline (text nav only)

Color shift alone is not enough — fails for color-blind users. Pair color with weight, underline, or background.

Sizing

Element Dimension
Top bar height 56–72px (64px is the sweet spot)
Sidebar width (expanded) 220–280px
Sidebar width (collapsed icon-rail) 56–72px
Nav item height (desktop) 36–44px
Nav item height (mobile, tap target) ≥ 44px
Nav item horizontal padding 12–16px
Gap between items 2–4px (stack), 16–24px (horizontal)
Bottom tab bar height 56px + safe-area-inset-bottom

Mobile menu (hamburger)

Hamburger is acceptable but comes with costs. Known: 30–50% lower discoverability vs visible nav (Luke Wroblewski research).

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. 9d ago First seen · 193 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 94097e053472

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canon-navigation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,782 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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