better-layout

better-layout is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jakubkrehel/skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,156 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A layout review guide for arranging interface elements so grouping, spacing, alignment and reading order are clear, including when the screen is resized, translated or used right-to-left.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review page and component layout, set gaps between related and separate items, keep controls visually distinct, and check layouts across languages and directions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent interfaces from becoming confusing when content or screen conditions change. It also reduces reliance on separator lines and inconsistent spacing to show structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review page and component layout, set gaps between related and separate items, keep controls visually distinct, and check layouts across languages and directions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jakubkrehel/skills/better-layout
About the project

jakubkrehel/skills is a collection of agent skills for improving user interfaces, covering areas such as typography, color, accessibility, layout, and product writing. It helps coding agents build or review interface designs. The catalogue entries are the project's own workflow modules for these tasks.

jakubkrehel/skills · 6,089 stars · on GitHub · jakub.kr

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 jakubkrehel/skills --skill better-layout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakubkrehel/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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 better-layout

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for better-layout

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,156 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
  • Socket pass 30 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 Aug 2026
  • 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 $0.00024 $0.01156
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00578
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00116

Measured 11d ago against content hash f04c8d870fca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

better-layout 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 11d 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/better-layout/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Layout

Position, spacing and alignment carry hierarchy before a word is read. This skill builds that structure and stress-tests it: resize it, translate it, mirror it for RTL.

Write every fix in the project's styling system. The numbers below are starting points for interfaces with no established density system, and where one applies, use it as written rather than a familiar-looking substitute. Keep deliberate platform chrome, compact professional tools and project tokens where they still pass the stress tests.

Hit areas and focus behavior belong to better-accessibility. Radius, shadows and animation belong to better-ui. Line length and text spacing belong to better-typography.

Group with space, not lines

Space groups first, background shapes second, separator lines last and only where space alone can't carry the structure. The gap between groups must be at least 2× the gap within one (8px intra-group to 16px+ inter-group), or the grouping reads as noise. Alignment edges and importance ordering are in grouping-and-alignment.md.

Keep controls distinct from content

Give every interactive element a background shape, a border, or a consistent placement zone. A control styled like the static text beside it does not read as a control.

Align to shared edges

Pick alignment edges and stick to them; every stray edge reads as noise. Use one project spacing step per level of subordination, where 16px is a useful default.

Use logical properties for direction-dependent layout: padding-inline-start, margin-inline-end. Reserve physical left and right for genuinely physical geometry.

Order by importance

The most important content sits near the top and the leading edge. Reading order flows top-to-bottom, leading-to-trailing. Think in leading and trailing, not left and right.

Hint at hidden content

Progressive disclosure needs a visible affordance. Use the project's established cue, or let the next item peek 16–32px past the scroll edge, or show a disclosure control. Content hidden with zero cue may as well not exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 11d ago First seen · 82 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A f04c8d870fca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

better-layout is a skill published in the GitHub repository jakubkrehel/skills (6,089 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,156 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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