studio-guide

studio-guide is a skill for Claude Code from hamzaPixl/pixl-ai. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,192 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to pre-built project templates, called studio stacks, for generating Next.js websites and SaaS backends. It explains how placeholder tokens are replaced to create a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the website and backend stacks, configure token values, and decide when to scaffold or build from scratch.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose an existing project foundation and understand how its scaffolding process works.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash scripts/scaffold.sh studio/stacks/nextjs/ <target-dir> <tokens-file> [features-file].

Part of the pixl-crew plugin — 93 skills, 14 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn the website and backend stacks, configure token values, and decide when to scaffold or build from scratch.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzaPixl/pixl-ai
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzapixl/pixl-ai/studio-guide

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pixl-crew, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 93 skills, 14 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,192 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 $0.00103 $0.01192
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00477
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00119

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5bb42d598f14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

studio-guide 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 1mo 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.

packages/crew/skills/studio-guide/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Explains the pixl-crew studio system — pre-built project stacks and a scaffolding pipeline that replaces {{TOKEN}} placeholders to generate production-ready projects. Never build infrastructure from scratch when a stack provides it.

Step 1: Identify Focus

Argument / Question Focus
nextjs Next.js website stack details
saas SaaS backend microservice stack details
scaffold How scaffold.sh works
tokens Token reference and how to define them
(no argument) Full overview of all stacks

Step 2: Studio Architecture

Two stacks live under studio/stacks/:

  • nextjs/ — Full Next.js website scaffold. See studio/stacks/nextjs/README.md for complete docs (components, hooks, types, API routes, pages).
  • saas/ — Backend microservice scaffold with 18 foundation packages and a service template. See studio/stacks/saas/ for structure.

Each stack has a manifest.yaml defining its token registry, conditional files, and file conditions.

Step 3: Scaffolding Process

Three stages:

3a. Token file — KEY=VALUE pairs

PROJECT_NAME=Acme Corp
PROJECT_SLUG=acme-corp
PRIMARY_COLOR_HSL=217 91% 60%
FONT_SANS=Inter

See studio/stacks/nextjs/manifest.yaml for the full token registry with examples and fallbacks.

3b. Features file (optional) — enables conditional files

stripe
supabase
blog

3c. Run scaffold

make scaffold STACK=nextjs    # Interactive — prompts for each token
# or manually:
bash scripts/scaffold.sh studio/stacks/nextjs/ <target-dir> <tokens-file> [features-file]

This copies all files, replaces {{TOKEN}} in .tmpl files (stripping .tmpl), skips gated files, and expands multi-entity templates.

Step 4: Next.js Stack (if relevant)

Key features: 10 pages, i18n (FR/NL/EN), MDX blog, shadcn/ui + premium CSS, Stripe/Supabase/Resend integrations, SEO (sitemap, OG, Schema.org), accessibility (WCAG AA), PWA manifest.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 1mo ago First seen · 113 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 5bb42d598f14

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studio-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzaPixl/pixl-ai (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,192 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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