sidebar-generator

sidebar-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kostja94/marketing-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (688 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing and reviewing sidebars on blogs, documentation sites, and other content pages. A sidebar is a secondary panel beside the main content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan sidebar placement, navigation, related-content areas, widgets, calls to action, and mobile behavior.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether a sidebar supports navigation or related content without distracting from the page's main purpose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan sidebar placement, navigation, related-content areas, widgets, calls to action, and mobile behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/sidebar
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 kostja94/marketing-skills --skill sidebar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 688 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 $0.00076 $0.00688
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00069

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7362a1c0db7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sidebar-generator 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/components/navigation/sidebar/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Components: Sidebar

Guides sidebar design for content sites (blogs, docs). ~80% of users focus on the left; sidebars influence flow but can hurt conversion if overused. Posts without sidebars show 3.1x higher conversion; bottom-right sticky CTAs outperform sidebars (5.62% vs 0.58% CTR).

When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1-2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.

Initial Assessment

Check for project context first: If .claude/project-context.md or .cursor/project-context.md exists, read it for content structure and conversion goals.

Identify:

  1. Content type: Blog, docs, e-commerce
  2. Primary goal: Navigation, CTA, related content
  3. Mobile: Collapse to hamburger or hide on small screens

Best Practices

Placement

  • Left sidebar: Prime for nav; 80% of users focus left
  • Right sidebar: Secondary content, ads, related posts
  • Static vs sticky: Static for content-focused; sticky for persistent CTA (subscription, cart)

Conversion Reality

Approach Typical result
Sidebar CTA <1% opt-in for blog sidebars
In-content CTA 3x+ higher conversion
Bottom-right sticky 5.62% CTR vs 0.58% sidebar
No sidebar 3.1x higher conversion vs with sidebar

Recommendation: Prefer in-content CTAs or bottom-right sticky over sidebar CTAs. Use sidebar for nav and discovery, not primary conversion.

Widget Guidelines

  • One high-value CTA max; avoid clutter
  • Social proof: Testimonials, logos
  • Popular/related posts: Discovery, internal linking
  • Avoid: Too many ads, affiliate links; reduces trust and speed

Mobile

  • Collapse: Hamburger or off-canvas drawer
  • 57%+ mobile traffic: Responsive design non-negotiable
  • Reduce clutter: Hide or simplify sidebar on small screens

Output Format

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 11d ago First seen · 68 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 7362a1c0db7a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sidebar-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository kostja94/marketing-skills (963 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 688 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 2026-08-30.

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