minimalist-ui

minimalist-ui is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,121 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of minimalist-ui, MIT.

A guide for creating clean, editorial-style interfaces with warm monochrome colours, strong typography, flat grids, and muted accents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for minimalist websites, document-style interfaces, workspace tools, and flat bento-grid layouts.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic workspace layouts, heavy shadows, gradients, and default fonts or icons.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for minimalist websites, document-style interfaces, workspace tools, and flat bento-grid layouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kevin-liu-01/agent-machines/taste-minimalist
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 Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines --skill taste-minimalist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,121 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.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00071 $0.02121
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01060
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00212

Measured 9d ago against content hash 837381ddbf25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minimalist-ui 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to minimalist-ui — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

knowledge/skills/taste-minimalist/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Protocol: Premium Utilitarian Minimalism UI Architect

1. Protocol Overview

Name: Premium Utilitarian Minimalism & Editorial UI Description: An advanced frontend engineering directive for generating highly refined, ultra-minimalist, "document-style" web interfaces analogous to top-tier workspace platforms. This protocol strictly enforces a high-contrast warm monochrome palette, bespoke typographic hierarchies, meticulous structural macro-whitespace, bento-grid layouts, and an ultra-flat component architecture with deliberate muted pastel accents. It actively rejects standard generic SaaS design trends.

2. Absolute Negative Constraints (Banned Elements)

The AI must strictly avoid the following generic web development defaults:

  • DO NOT use the "Inter", "Roboto", or "Open Sans" typefaces.
  • DO NOT use generic, thin-line icon libraries like "Lucide", "Feather", or standard "Heroicons".
  • DO NOT use Tailwind's default heavy drop shadows (e.g., shadow-md, shadow-lg, shadow-xl). Shadows must be practically non-existent or heavily customized to be ultra-diffuse and low opacity (< 0.05).
  • DO NOT use primary colored backgrounds for large elements or sections (e.g., no bright blue, green, or red hero sections).
  • DO NOT use gradients, neon colors, or 3D glassmorphism (beyond subtle navbar blurs).
  • DO NOT use rounded-full (pill shapes) for large containers, cards, or primary buttons.
  • DO NOT use emojis anywhere in code, markup, text content, headings, or alt text. Replace with proper icons or clean SVG primitives.
  • DO NOT use generic placeholder names like "John Doe", "Acme Corp", or "Lorem Ipsum". Use realistic, contextual content.
  • DO NOT use AI copywriting clichés: "Elevate", "Seamless", "Unleash", "Next-Gen", "Game-changer", "Delve". Write plain, specific language.

3. Typographic Architecture

The interface must rely on extreme typographic contrast and premium font selection to establish an editorial feel.

  • Primary Sans-Serif (Body, UI, Buttons): Use clean, geometric, or system-native fonts with character. Target: font-family: 'SF Pro Display', 'Geist Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Switzer', sans-serif.
  • Editorial Serif (Hero Headings & Quotes): Target: font-family: 'Lyon Text', 'Newsreader', 'Playfair Display', 'Instrument Serif', serif. Apply tight tracking (letter-spacing: -0.02em to -0.04em) and tight line-height (1.1).
  • Monospace (Code, Keystrokes, Meta-data): Target: font-family: 'Geist Mono', 'SF Mono', 'JetBrains Mono', monospace.
  • Text Colors: Body text must never be absolute black (#000000). Use off-black/charcoal (#111111 or #2F3437) with a generous line-height of 1.6 for legibility. Secondary text should be muted gray (#787774).

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 93 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 837381ddbf25

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minimalist-ui is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines (29 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,121 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to minimalist-ui, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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