pilot

A dispatcher for visual-design work that directs a task to the appropriate design method or level. Its design areas include color, typography, layout, shapes, graphics, motion, and design systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a page, product, or interface looks wrong but the cause is unclear. It helps choose where to start and which design areas to address in sequence.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether a design problem is about one specific layer—such as color or type size—instead of starting an unnecessary full redesign. It also points to related methods when the task does not fit its design areas.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iamk77/skill/pilot
Any agent
npx skills add IamK77/Skill --skill pilot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IamK77/Skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 236 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,065 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00236 $0.03065
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.01533
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00613
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00307

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5e5621c54c4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pilot 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 2d 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/atelier/pilot/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pilot

A harbor pilot doesn't repaint your ship — they board it because they know these waters, and put you on the right course through them. pilot is the front door to the atelier suite: it takes a design task, a goal, or just "this looks bad and I can't say why", and returns a routing verdict — run this lens, enter the design system at this layer, run these in order, redirect to a sibling suite, or don't reach for a skill, here's why. It is a dispatcher, not a method, so it has no GATEs; its whole value is the call it makes in the next paragraph, not a flight plan it walks you through.

Earn your keep above the harness, or stay quiet. The harness already routes a single clearly-named task to its skill on the trigger description alone. So pilot exists for the five things matching can't do:

  1. Enter at the right layer — design is a system built in layers, and most design work is not a blank canvas. The single highest-value call here is "your build works but it reads cheap → the problem is the color system and the type scale, start at color/type, not a full redesign." Don't make someone define a whole design language when their work enters at one layer.
  2. Sequence — "make it look premium" is really several lenses in order; name the chain (canoncolortypelayoutformmotionsystems) and the hand-offs, and which to skip.
  3. Redirect — within design (the confusable lenses below) and across suites: the mechanism of CSS is surface:keel, what to build is surface:bearings, general code craft is engineering:plumb. This is the highest-value routing and the one a trigger match never does.
  4. Refuse — the honest "no skill for this" (a one-off throwaway, a single color tweak). A router that always finds a lens to sell is worse than none.
  5. Disambiguate — the confusable calls (canon vs color on "the palette"; layout vs surface:keel on "the grid"; form vs graphics on "the visual"; systems vs surface:bulwark on "the design system") where the wrong pick wastes a flight plan.

Scope: the eight atelier lenses only — and atelier owns the look and feel, not all of frontend. How the CSS cascade / Grid / Flexbox actually work is surface:keel — atelier owns the composition judgment, keel owns the mechanism. What to build, the user's mental model, and whether a design is manipulative is surface:bearings. State, data, the unhappy paths, accessibility, and the performance budget are surface (wellspring / seaworthy / lookout). General code craft, architecture, testing, process, and security are engineering. Realtime/offline correctness is distributed. Choosing a library is quarry. Point there; don't absorb.


Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2d ago First seen · 183 lines · 236 tokens per session scan A 5e5621c54c4b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository IamK77/Skill (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 236 tokens to every session and 3,065 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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