design-spells

design-spells is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (828 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A collection of guidance for adding small interactive details, animations, easter eggs, and personality to web and mobile interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design hover effects, loading states, transitions, buttons, scroll indicators, and other small user-interface interactions.
Why use it?
It helps improve interfaces that work but feel generic or predictable by suggesting ways to make interactions more distinctive.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design hover effects, loading states, transitions, buttons, scroll indicators, and other small user-interface interactions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/design-spells
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 hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills --skill design-spells
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 828 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 $0.00030 $0.00828
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00414
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00083

Measured 6d ago against content hash 98eeb5364713, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-spells 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 6d 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/global_config/design-spells/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Spells Skill

Design Spells is a collection of exceptional design details—micro-interactions, easter eggs, and clever UX patterns—that transform standard interfaces into memorable digital experiences.

Context

Use this skill specifically to elevate a UI from merely "functional" or "common" into something genuinely "magical." It focuses on the minute details that surprise and delight users, establishing a strong, premium brand personality.

When to Use

Trigger this skill when:

  • Polishing a finished feature to actively add a "wow" factor.
  • Designing unique interactions to replace standard web behaviors (e.g., clever hover states, creative loaders, surprising transitions).
  • Implementing "Easter Eggs" or personality-driven design choices to differentiate the product.
  • Looking to break away from generic, template-driven development.

Execution Workflow

  1. Identify Opportunity: Target the "boring" or "standard" parts of the interface (e.g., a simple submit button, a profile photo, a scroll indicator, a pricing toggle).
  2. Research Spells: Browse Design Spells for highly creative patterns (e.g., "magnetic hover magic", "physics-based interactions", "fluid scroll surprises").
  3. Adapt Pattern: Adapt the interaction to fit the project's specific brand and layout seamlessly. Use it to enhance the core narrative of the app.
  4. Implement flawlessly: Use CSS, Anime.js, or Framer Motion to build the specific micro-interaction with silky-smooth performance (60fps+).

Strict Rules

  • ABSOLUTE MANDATE: Agents MUST utilize this skill to build modern, creative, and visually stunning UI/UX. DO NOT build in the common style and ways. Look for every opportunity to inject "magic" into standard components.
  • Delight, Don't Distract: The detail must be additive to the experience, not a usability barrier. It should feel expensive and highly crafted.
  • Quality Execution: A broken or janky "spell" is worse than none. Ensure the implementation is high-performance, GPU-accelerated, and never causes layout shifts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 6d ago First seen · 70 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 98eeb5364713

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design-spells is a skill published in the GitHub repository hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 828 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 2026-09-03.