aesthetic

aesthetic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ihatesea69/kiro-kit. It costs 30 tokens per session (431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for making user interfaces look polished and feel consistent. It covers layout, colors, typography, loading states, and small animations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine screens and components, create color themes, design skeleton loading screens, and add hover, press, transition, success, and error effects.
Why use it?
It helps remove guesswork when a working interface looks rough, inconsistent, or hard to use. It gives practical principles for improving visual clarity and user feedback.

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/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/aesthetic
Any agent
npx skills add ihatesea69/kiro-kit --skill aesthetic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihatesea69/kiro-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for aesthetic

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/aesthetic.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/aesthetic)
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/aesthetic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/aesthetic.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 431 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 $0.00030 $0.00431
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 4d ago against content hash 41d897ed856d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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.

.kiro/skills/aesthetic/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Aesthetic Design

Activate this skill when interfaces need visual refinement, micro-interactions, or design system polish.

When to Use

  • Polishing UI components for production quality
  • Adding micro-interactions and transitions
  • Implementing visual hierarchy and rhythm
  • Creating cohesive color palettes and themes
  • Designing loading states and skeleton screens
  • Adding subtle animations that enhance UX

Design Principles

  • Visual Hierarchy: guide the eye with size, weight, color, and spacing
  • Rhythm and Repetition: consistent spacing creates visual harmony
  • Contrast: use contrast purposefully to draw attention
  • Whitespace: generous spacing improves readability and elegance
  • Typography: limit to 2 font families, use clear type scale
  • Color: use a constrained palette with intentional accent colors

Micro-interactions

  • Button press: subtle scale (0.98) with quick transition (100ms)
  • Hover states: color shift or elevation change (150ms ease)
  • Page transitions: fade or slide with shared layout animations
  • Loading: skeleton screens over spinners for perceived performance
  • Success/error: brief color flash or icon animation
  • Scroll: parallax or reveal animations (respect reduced-motion)

Implementation

/* Smooth transitions */
.interactive {
  transition: transform 150ms ease, box-shadow 150ms ease;
}
.interactive:hover {
  transform: translateY(-1px);
  box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
}
.interactive:active {
  transform: scale(0.98);
}

Quality Checklist

  • Consistent spacing using design tokens
  • Smooth transitions on all state changes (no jarring jumps)
  • Proper loading states (skeleton, not spinner)
  • Accessible animations (prefers-reduced-motion respected)
  • Touch-friendly targets (44px minimum)
  • Visual feedback on every interaction
Files

What ships with it

6 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. 4d ago First seen · 61 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 41d897ed856d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aesthetic is a skill published in the GitHub repository ihatesea69/kiro-kit (18 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 431 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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