s4h-aesthetic

s4h-aesthetic is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 79 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting point for choosing the right kind of aesthetic review, where aesthetic means the qualities that make something feel clear, fitting, and well-formed. It routes questions about consistency, complexity, patterns, or simplicity to a matching review method.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide how to examine an artifact: check whether it feels unified, test whether it is overcomplicated, understand its underlying pattern, or find a simpler version.
Why use it?
It helps when you know something about a design, piece of writing, product, or code feels wrong but cannot yet name the problem. It gives you a way to distinguish inconsistency from unnecessary complexity or a deeper structural issue.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide how to examine an artifact: check whether it feels unified, test whether it is overcomplicated, understand its underlying pattern, or find a simpler version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-aesthetic
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 human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-aesthetic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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 $0.00079 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00100

Measured 13d ago against content hash c65d7169befe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-aesthetic 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • aesthetic — 97% identical, 2 lines differ
skills/s4h-aesthetic/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aesthetic

Applies aesthetic reasoning to any artifact — design, writing, code, product, argument. Diagnoses what kind of aesthetic question is being asked and applies the right tool.

Which tool fits

You need to... Tool
Check whether parts form a unified whole coherence-check
Test whether something is more complex than it needs to be elegance-testing
Name the underlying structural pattern at work pattern-detection
Find the simpler version while preserving what matters simplicity-analysis

Routing Decision

  • Something feels off, jarring, or inconsistent → coherence-check
  • Something feels over-engineered or baroque → elegance-testing
  • You want to understand why something works (or doesn't) → pattern-detection
  • You want to strip something back to its core → simplicity-analysis
  • Unclear → start with coherence-check; it usually surfaces which other question needs answering

Framing check: Confirm the specific artifact before routing. State what you've identified — the actual object being analyzed and the aesthetic question being asked — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the artifact and the aesthetic question]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Confirm Direction

After diagnosing which tool fits, use the AskUserQuestion tool to confirm direction. Construct the question dynamically to include your diagnosis:

  • Question: "My read: [diagnosed tool] — [one sentence on why it fits]. How would you like to proceed?"
  • Header: "Direction"
  • Options:
    • Yes, run that tool — Execute the diagnosed skill immediately using the context already provided
    • Show all options — List every skill in this category with one-line descriptions
    • Quick version — Run a lighter-weight alternative if one exists for this situation
    • Re-diagnose — Revisit the situation description for a different read

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 13d ago First seen · 90 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A c65d7169befe

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s4h-aesthetic is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 998 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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