spatial-rhythm

spatial-rhythm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dragoon0x/taste-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (420 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of layout rules for controlling spacing, empty space, density, and visual rhythm. It uses a repeatable spacing scale and adjusts how tightly content is arranged to suit the task and the audience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build layouts, review spacing, choose an appropriate level of information density, or diagnose relationships between interface elements.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a design feels cramped, empty, orderly, or difficult to scan. Consistent spacing and intentional proximity show which elements belong together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build layouts, review spacing, choose an appropriate level of information density, or diagnose relationships between interface elements.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 420 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 $0.00038 $0.00420
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 10d ago against content hash 816f176886e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spatial-rhythm 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.

skills/visual-language/spatial-rhythm/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Spatial Rhythm

Space is not what's left over. It's active design material.

How to use

  • /spatial-rhythm Apply spatial design constraints to this conversation.

Constraints

Spacing System

  • MUST use a consistent spacing scale (4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 or similar)
  • MUST use proximity to signal relationships: related things close, unrelated things far
  • MUST ensure outer margins create breathing room proportional to the content
  • NEVER use arbitrary spacing values. If it's not on the scale, it shouldn't exist.

Density Rules

  • MUST match density to use case: data tools can be dense, consumer products should breathe
  • High density works when: users compare data, speed matters, users are experienced, long sessions
  • Low density works when: content is consumed (not scanned), users are new, focus matters
  • NEVER apply one density philosophy everywhere. Settings and marketing pages should feel different.

Rhythm

  • Regular rhythm (even spacing, consistent sizes) feels orderly. Good for data, tables, lists.
  • Syncopated rhythm (mostly regular with intentional breaks) feels dynamic. Good for editorial, marketing.
  • MUST ensure rhythm matches content energy. A to-do app with irregular rhythm is confusing.

Whitespace

  • Generous margins signal confidence ("we trust this content to speak for itself")
  • MUST ensure whitespace accounts for 40-60% of total layout area in most well-designed products
  • NEVER treat whitespace as wasted space. It separates, groups, emphasizes, and breathes.

Anti-Patterns

  • Spacing values that almost match but don't (15px next to 16px)
  • Cramming content to "use the space" instead of letting the content breathe
  • Identical spacing between all elements regardless of their relationship
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 · 42 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 816f176886e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spatial-rhythm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/taste-skills (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 420 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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