mdn-web-best-practices

mdn-web-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dublyo/saas-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-development and review workflow based on MDN Web Docs, a reference for browser technologies and web standards. It covers interface design, accessibility, responsive behavior, performance, and security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build, redesign, refactor, or audit web apps, including semantic HTML, CSS, browser APIs, forms, accessibility, responsiveness, performance, and security.
Why use it?
It gives web work a consistent standards reference and requires the existing project and relevant browser guidance to be checked before implementation. It also separates audit findings from code changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/dribrahimm/skills/mozilla/content/files/en-us/web.

Good fit Use it to build, redesign, refactor, or audit web apps, including semantic HTML, CSS, browser APIs, forms, accessibility, responsiveness, performance, and security.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

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 1,335 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 $0.01335
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00134

Measured 12d ago against content hash 150025ed1fe7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mdn-web-best-practices 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/search_mdn.py, scripts/web_audit_checklist.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

mdn-web-best-practices/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MDN Web Best Practices

Operating Model

Use a spec-first workflow for web work unless the user already provided a precise implementation request. Default to:

  1. Clarify the target user, page/app type, core flow, framework, and validation bar.
  2. Inspect the current repo before choosing patterns or adding dependencies.
  3. Route to the smallest relevant reference files below.
  4. Use the local MDN checkout as the standards source of truth.
  5. Design context-aware UI, then implement against MDN-backed web platform rules.
  6. Validate build/tests, browser behavior, responsiveness, accessibility, console, performance, and security before finishing substantial work.

For audit-only requests, skip implementation unless the user asks for fixes. Lead with findings, file/line references, risk, and evidence.

Source Of Truth

Primary MDN source:

/Users/dribrahimm/skills/mozilla/content/files/en-us/web

Fallback source:

https://github.com/mdn/content/tree/main/files/en-us/web

Use the local source first. Use the GitHub fallback only when the local path is missing or the needed MDN topic is not present locally. When browser behavior, API support, accessibility semantics, or security requirements are uncertain, search MDN instead of relying on memory.

Reference Routing

Read only the references needed for the task:

  • references/mdn-routing.md - local MDN search rules, topic map, and fallback behavior.
  • references/html.md - semantic HTML, document structure, media, interactive elements.
  • references/css.md - layout, responsive CSS, media queries, container queries, motion.
  • references/javascript.md - DOM, events, fetch, storage, browser APIs, progressive enhancement.
  • references/accessibility.md - keyboard, focus, labels, ARIA restraint, reduced motion.
  • references/forms.md - native forms, validation, errors, uploads, autofill, mobile inputs.
  • references/performance.md - rendering, loading, images, fonts, animations, Core Web Vitals.
  • references/security.md - XSS, CSP, cookies, CORS, storage, permissions, embeds.
  • references/design-validation.md - design quality bar and final QA expectations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 12d ago First seen · 121 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 150025ed1fe7

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mdn-web-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository dublyo/saas-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,335 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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