canon-tabs

canon-tabs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for tabs and tab bars that switch between related views on the same page. It explains when tabs fit, how active tabs should work, and how to support keyboards and small screens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing, reviewing, or changing tab navigation, tab panels, responsive tab layouts, or nested tabs.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using tabs for unrelated pages, forms, or step-by-step tasks. It also prevents confusing focus behavior and overflowing tab bars.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing, reviewing, or changing tab navigation, tab panels, responsive tab layouts, or nested tabs.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,237 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 $0.00086 $0.02237
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01118
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00224

Measured 6d ago against content hash e955ec6faa65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canon-tabs 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 6d 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-tabs/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CANON · Tabs

Tabs group related views that share the same page scope. Users switch between them to see alternate views of the same thing. Not a substitute for navigation.

When tabs are appropriate

Appropriate Not appropriate
Same entity, different views (Profile: Overview, Posts, Followers) Unrelated pages
Filtering by category within a single view (All, Active, Archived) Forms split across tabs
Settings organized into groups Multi-step workflows (use stepper)

Forms in tabs are almost always wrong. Users might submit without visiting a tab, or fill one and lose it on switch.

Multi-step processes aren't tabs. Linear flows use a stepper, not tabs.

Max tab count

Count OK?
2–4 tabs Ideal
5–7 tabs OK if labels are short
8+ tabs Redesign — use a sidebar or dropdown

If tabs start overflowing the container, either the tabs are too many or the container is too narrow. Fix the cause, not the symptom.

Tab styles

Style Use
Underline tabs Default for most UIs. Active tab has bottom border.
Filled / pill tabs Segmented controls, mobile-native feel
Outlined tabs Less common; works in dense dashboards
Icon + label tabs When icons help scanning
Icon-only tabs (mobile tab bar) 3–5 primary destinations (see canon-navigation)

Underline tabs are the web default. Pill tabs often signal "filter control" more than navigation.

Active state — not optional

Active tab is unmistakable at a glance. Combine signals:

  • Position (underline below, or filled background)
  • Weight shift (medium → semibold on active)
  • Color change (muted → strong on active)

Color alone fails colorblind users. Always pair.

Active text contrast ≥ 4.5:1. Inactive text contrast ≥ 4.5:1 — tabs are text, not decoration. "Inactive looks disabled" is a bug, not a style.

Keyboard behavior — WAI-ARIA tab pattern

This pattern is strict. Follow it exactly.

Key Behavior
Tab Move focus into the tab list (focuses the active tab), then past it to the panel
Shift+Tab Reverse
Arrow Right / Left (horizontal tabs) Move focus between tabs, activating on focus (automatic) or on Enter (manual)
Arrow Up / Down (vertical tabs) Same, along the vertical axis
Home First tab
End Last tab
Enter / Space (Manual activation only) Activate the focused tab

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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. 6d ago First seen · 243 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A e955ec6faa65

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canon-tabs is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,237 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 2026-09-03.

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