agent-ui-design

agent-ui-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of design patterns for interfaces where people chat with an AI agent and watch it work. It covers streaming responses, tool-call displays, sandbox status, errors, and layouts for agent dashboards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing AI chat interfaces, showing tool executions, rendering responses as they arrive, displaying sandbox activity, or building three-panel agent dashboards.
Why use it?
It helps users understand what an agent is doing instead of leaving its work hidden. It also helps keep complex details available without overwhelming the main view.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing AI chat interfaces, showing tool executions, rendering responses as they arrive, displaying sandbox activity, or building three-panel agent dashboards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills/agent-ui-design
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 flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills --skill agent-ui-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,510 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 $0.00049 $0.01510
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00755
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00151

Measured 11d ago against content hash 06198e0a0ce4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-ui-design 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 11d 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-src/agent-ui-design/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent-UI-Design

Design patterns for chat interfaces, agent UX, streaming UI, and tool visualization. Based on 21st.dev Agents SDK and award-winning agent products.

Scope

Use this skill when:

  • You are designing a chat interface for an AI application
  • You need to visually represent agent tool calls
  • You are implementing streaming rendering for real-time text output
  • You are visualizing sandbox states and execution environments
  • You are designing a three-panel layout for agent dashboards

Principles

1. Agent-Ready Design

Components must natively support streaming content, tool calls, and asynchronous state transitions. Chat UIs are a core pattern, not an add-on.

2. Transparency over Magic

The user must know at all times what the system is doing. No silent background work -- every agent step is visible.

3. Progressive Complexity

The default view shows the essentials. Details (tool parameters, raw data, logs) are available on demand.

4. Streaming as Experience

Real-time text output is not a technical detail but a deliberately designed UX element. The speed at which text appears influences perceived intelligence.

5. Errors as Design Cases

Tool errors, timeouts, and unexpected results are normal states, not exceptions. They require dedicated visual design.

Rules

Chat Architecture

  • DO: Three-column chat architecture following the 21st.dev pattern:
    • Thread Sidebar (left): List of past conversations, scrollable, with search.
    • Chat Panel (center): Message stream with input field. Primary interaction.
    • Context Panel (right): Optional, for results, previews, forms.
  • DO: Lazy-load message history. Only the last N messages initially, older ones on scroll-up.
  • DON'T: Keep the entire message history in client state. Use server-side persistence.
  • DON'T: Chat panel without a visible input field. It must always be clear where to type.

Message Types

  • DO: Differentiate messages by role:
    • User Message: Right-aligned, accent color, compact layout.
    • Assistant Message: Left-aligned, neutral, expandable for tool results.
    • System Message: Centered, subtle, informational.
    • Tool Call: Visually distinct with status indicator.
  • DO: Markdown rendering in assistant messages (headings, lists, code blocks).
  • DO: Code blocks with syntax highlighting and copy button.
  • DON'T: Style all message types identically. Visual differentiation provides orientation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 135 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 06198e0a0ce4

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agent-ui-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,510 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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