colorize

colorize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from educlopez/ui-craft. It costs 81 tokens per session (819 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design skill for choosing and applying a restrained color scheme to a user interface. It typically adds one accent color in a few deliberate places or tones down an interface with too many colors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set an accent for actions, active navigation, key metrics, status indicators, and focus states, while keeping most of the interface neutral.
Why use it?
It gives an interface a clearer visual identity without making every element compete for attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ui-craft plugin — 30 skills, 25 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/educlopez/ui-craft/colorize
Any agent
npx skills add educlopez/ui-craft --skill colorize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/educlopez/ui-craft

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ui-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 25 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for colorize

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 819 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00081 $0.00819
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00409
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00082

Measured 5d ago against content hash 22f12b7297fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

colorize 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 5d 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.

.agents/skills/colorize/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Context: this sub-skill is one lens of the broader ui-craft skill. If the ui-craft skill is also installed, read its SKILL.md first for Discovery + Anti-Slop + Craft Test, then apply the specific lens below.

Add color to the UI at $ARGUMENTS. Load the ui-craft skill.

The rule (from SKILL.md): 90%+ neutral, one accent, 3-5 placements per viewport. Reinforce this before adding anything. More color is not more design.

Before you touch anything — ask about brand. If a brand color exists, use it. If not, offer 2-3 options in OKLCH — include one warm (e.g., oklch(0.67 0.19 45)) and one cool (e.g., oklch(0.60 0.18 250)). Never default to blue.

Where color EARNS its place:

  • Primary CTA background.
  • One key metric tint — accent at ~8% opacity as a subtle background, accent at full strength on the number itself.
  • Active state of the current nav item (underline, dot, or subtle tint — pick one).
  • Status dots (success / warning / danger), 6-8px, no pills.
  • Focus ring (:focus-visible).

Where color does NOT go (anti-slop territory):

  • Heading gradient text.
  • Colored left or top borders on every card.
  • Uniform chips on every tag/label.
  • Emoji-as-icons to inject "color."
  • Trend arrows in green/red when a plain / + tabular-nums would read cleaner.

Knob gating (VISUAL_DENSITY):

  • ≤ 4 → single accent only, max 3 placements.
  • 5-7 → single accent, 3-5 placements, status dots allowed.
  • 8+ → semantic palette (success/warning/danger) allowed beyond the single accent — dashboards and data UIs earn this.

Over-colored? Reduce.

If the UI is already shouting with color, this command also removes color.

  1. Count accents per viewport. Cut to 1-3. The primary CTA keeps its accent; everything else goes neutral unless it's a true semantic state (success/warning/danger on a real status).
  2. Mute decorative color. Background patterns, tinted cards without meaning, colored left borders on every list item, heading gradients, colored pills on every tag → gone.
  3. Keep semantic, cut decorative. Status dots, focus rings, active-nav underlines stay. Color as ornament goes.

References to read: references/color.md (OKLCH, tokens, dark mode, contrast), references/accessibility.md (contrast ratios for AA/AAA).

Output: edit code directly. Lift any literal hex into CSS variables (--color-accent, --color-accent-tint) — respect existing token naming if present. Print the Review Format table. One row per placement, with the ratio check (AA/AAA) on text uses.

Next step: /tokens — promote the color decisions into the durable token spine so they survive the session (rung 2).

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. 5d ago First seen · 50 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 22f12b7297fb

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colorize is a skill published in the GitHub repository educlopez/ui-craft (313 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 819 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 2026-08-30.

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