visual-docs

A method for explaining a codebase or system as a browsable visual HTML document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for system explanations, analyses, runbooks, reports, design documents, architecture maps, and other visual documentation.
Why use it?
It makes architecture, workflows, checklists, and relationships easier to scan than plain text alone.

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/kbashar/myagentskills/visual-docs
Any agent
npx skills add kBashar/myagentskills --skill visual-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kBashar/myagentskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,200 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 $0.00087 $0.01200
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00120

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3be1719ca342, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-docs 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.

visual-docs/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Docs

Overview

Analysis and explanation docs land better as a visual, browsable HTML page, not just markdown. This skill carries a specific visual identity — a "field-survey / blueprint schematic": monospace-forward, hairline borders, sharp corners, a faint plotted-grid ground, one bold accent, muted role hues. Adapt the accent and role hues to each subject rather than copying verbatim.

Core principle: pair the written analysis with a page someone can scan, where every structural device (numbering, swatches, dividers, labels) encodes something true about the content — never decoration.

When to Use

  • "Explain how X works", "document/analyze this system", "write a runbook / report / design doc"
  • Any time the deliverable is a document AND a visual would read more clearly than prose
  • You're about to hand over a checklist, comparison, architecture map, or pipeline

Not for: throwaway answers, code comments, or when the user explicitly asks for plain markdown/text.

Bundled files

Both live next to this file. This skill is self-contained — it depends on no other skill.

  • page-craft.md — the craft floor for any page: treatment calibration, theme tokens, typography, layout, copy, build hygiene, the AI-default looks to avoid, and a pre-delivery checklist.
  • design-system.md — the blueprint-schematic visual identity: exact palette, role hues, type stack, structural devices.

Process

  1. Read page-craft.md — the standards every page here must clear.
  2. Read design-system.md for the exact palette, type stack, and layout devices. Build from its tokens.
  3. Adapt to the subject — assign the ONE bold accent to the subject's conceptual crux; map role hues to the subject's own categories. Don't reuse the reference hues verbatim.
  4. Build self-contained HTML — inline CSS/JS, no external assets; both light + dark via :root tokens + prefers-color-scheme AND data-theme overrides; responsive with overflow-x:auto on wide content; <title> + emoji favicon.
  5. Deliver the local file — write a standalone .html (full <!DOCTYPE>) into the repo (e.g. docs/) so it lives with the code, give the user the path, and stop. The local file is the whole deliverable; publishing is a separate request, never a bonus you add on your own.
  6. Publish only when the user asked for a hosted copy. The predicate is an explicit request in their words — "publish it", "host it", "give me a link", "share it", "put it on claude.ai". Anything short of that (a page-publishing tool being available, the page looking shareable, the user seeming likely to want a link) means do not publish; offer the option in one sentence instead. When they do ask: hosts typically wrap their own <head>/<body>, so publish a body-fragment copy — no <!DOCTYPE>/<html>/<head>/<body> tags, keeping the <style>, content, and <script>. Drop any custom theme-toggle button from the fragment — the host supplies its own toggle, stamping data-theme on the root, which the tokens already handle. Pass an emoji favicon and a one-line description, then report both the local path and the URL.
  7. Verify — run the checklist at the end of page-craft.md: both themes legible, toggle wins over OS preference, no horizontal body scroll, no silent font fallback, keyboard focus visible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 2d ago First seen · 58 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 3be1719ca342

Subscribe to this mod's changes

visual-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository kBashar/myagentskills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,200 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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