design-anti-patterns

design-anti-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for avoiding generic AI-made interface patterns when writing frontend code such as HTML, CSS, React, Vue, or Svelte.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing UI decisions before implementation and enforcing a restrained, functional visual style for web interfaces.
Why use it?
It flags common visual defaults—such as excessive rounded corners, glass-like panels, gradients, and decorative copy—that can make interfaces look artificial or less useful.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Reviewing UI decisions before implementation and enforcing a restrained, functional visual style for web interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/design-anti-patterns
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 Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills --skill design-anti-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 950 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 $0.00118 $0.00950
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00095

Measured 12d ago against content hash d1667f8caf3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-anti-patterns 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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/design-anti-patterns/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Anti-Patterns (Uncodixfy)

SOURCE: Uncodixfy (accessed 2026-03-17)

Before writing any UI code, apply the Uncodixfy metacognitive check: list the UI decisions you would make by default, then do NOT make them if they match any banned pattern below. Build interfaces that feel like Linear, Raycast, Stripe, or GitHub — functional, honest, no visual theatrics.

Pre-Flight Check

Before generating any UI component, run this internal check:

  1. List all styling decisions you would make by default for this component
  2. Cross-reference each against the banned patterns in this skill and the full rules reference
  3. Replace every match with the "normal" standard from the reference
  4. Verify the result contains zero banned patterns

Absolute Prohibitions

These patterns are never acceptable unless the user explicitly overrides:

  • Border radius > 12px on any element
  • Pill-shaped buttons or badges
  • Glassmorphism, frosted panels, blur haze
  • Soft corporate gradients (backgrounds, buttons, text)
  • Hero sections inside dashboards or internal tools
  • Decorative copy ("Operational clarity without the clutter")
  • Eyebrow labels (uppercase <small> with letter-spacing)
  • KPI card grids as default dashboard layouts
  • Fake charts that exist only to fill space
  • Transform animations on hover (translateX, scale, bounce)
  • Dramatic box shadows (> 8px blur, colored shadows)
  • Floating detached sidebars with rounded outer shells
  • <small> subheaders above <h2> headline blocks
  • Decorative note cards with <small> + <strong> pattern
  • Generic startup copy in any UI element
  • Donut charts with hand-wavy percentages
  • Multiple nested panel types (panel, panel-2, rail-panel)
  • Status indicators using ::before pseudo-element colored dots
  • Nav badges showing "Live" or count indicators without functional purpose
  • Footer meta lines ("Dashboard v2.1 - dark mode - single-file HTML")

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 76 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A d1667f8caf3e

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design-anti-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 950 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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