common-ui-design

common-ui-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard. It costs 47 tokens per session (732 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing distinctive, production-ready web interfaces before writing the code. It sets the interface’s purpose, tone, visual direction, typography, colors, and motion.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building web pages, components, dashboards, and applications in frameworks such as React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, or plain HTML and CSS.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of ending up with a generic interface or making visual decisions inconsistently during implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is for building web pages, components, dashboards, and applications in frameworks such as React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, or plain HTML and CSS.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-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 HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill common-ui-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 732 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.00732
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00366
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00073

Measured 13d ago against content hash 309c229e2d47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

common-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 13d 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/common/common-ui-design/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UI Design Direction

Priority: P0 (CRITICAL)

Before writing any code, commit to deliberate aesthetic direction.

Phase 0: Design Thinking (Mandatory Pre-Code)

Answer these before touching implementation:

  1. Purpose: What problem this UI solve? Who uses it?
  2. Tone: Pick one extreme and commit — brutally minimal | maximalist | retro-futuristic | editorial/magazine | luxury/refined | brutalist/raw | playful/toy-like | organic/natural | art deco | industrial/utilitarian
  3. Differentiation: Name one thing user will remember about this interface.

Bold maximalism and refined minimalism both work — intentionality, not intensity, key.

Aesthetic Dimensions

Typography

  • Pair distinctive display font + refined body font; never default to system fonts.
  • Self-host via next/font, @font-face, or Google Fonts API — never CDN <link> in production.
  • See Font Pairing & Tone Examples

Color & Theme

  • Dominant color + sharp accent > timid, evenly-distributed palettes.
  • Use CSS custom properties (--color-primary, --color-accent) for consistency.
  • Commit: dark or light — don't default to light because it feels "safe".

Motion

  • One well-orchestrated entrance (staggered reveals, animation-delay) > scattered micro-interactions.
  • CSS-first: @keyframes, transition, animation-delay; React: Motion library for complex sequences.
  • See Motion Patterns

Spatial Composition

  • Break grid intentionally: asymmetry, overlap, diagonal flow, grid-breaking elements.
  • Generous negative space OR controlled density — never accidental middleground.

Backgrounds & Depth

  • Create atmosphere: gradient meshes, noise textures, layered transparencies, grain overlays.
  • Dramatic shadows and decorative borders should match chosen tone.
  • Solid white/gray backgrounds = missed creative opportunity.

Anti-Patterns

  • No generic font defaults: Inter/Roboto/Arial/system-ui produce forgettable UIs; choose characterful fonts.
  • No purple-gradient-on-white: Most overused AI aesthetic; commit to something context-specific.
  • No scattered animations: One orchestrated entrance beats ten random hover effects.
  • No accidental layouts: Every spacing and positioning decision must serve aesthetic intent.
  • No same aesthetic twice: Vary light/dark, font style, tone — never converge on single style.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 13d ago First seen · 84 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 309c229e2d47

Subscribe to this mod's changes

common-ui-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (565 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 732 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 2026-08-30.

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