shader-dev

A collection of GLSL techniques for writing real-time graphics shaders, small programs that calculate how pixels look on the GPU.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create ShaderToy-compatible effects such as ray-marched scenes, signed-distance shapes, lighting, procedural noise, fluids, particles, and post-processing.
Why use it?
It brings many visual-effects methods together so you can choose an approach without researching each technique from scratch.

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/leventilo/mobius/shader-dev
Any agent
npx skills add leventilo/mobius --skill shader-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leventilo/mobius

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,389 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00039 $0.04389
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02194
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00878
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00439

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7d3cc9d69da2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shader-dev 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to shader-dev — 0 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.

skills/viz-mapper/shader-dev/SKILL.md · 300 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shader Craft

A unified skill covering 36 GLSL shader techniques (ShaderToy-compatible) for real-time visual effects.

Invocation

/shader-dev <request>

$ARGUMENTS contains the user's request (e.g. "create a raymarched SDF scene with soft shadows").

Skill Structure

shader-dev/
├── SKILL.md                      # Core skill (this file)
├── techniques/                   # Implementation guides (read per routing table)
│   ├── ray-marching.md           # Sphere tracing with SDF
│   ├── sdf-3d.md                 # 3D signed distance functions
│   ├── lighting-model.md         # PBR, Phong, toon shading
│   ├── procedural-noise.md       # Perlin, Simplex, FBM
│   └── ...                       # 34 more technique files
└── reference/                    # Detailed guides (read as needed)
    ├── ray-marching.md           # Math derivations & advanced patterns
    ├── sdf-3d.md                 # Extended SDF theory
    ├── lighting-model.md         # Lighting math deep-dive
    ├── procedural-noise.md       # Noise function theory
    └── ...                       # 34 more reference files

How to Use

  1. Read the Technique Routing Table below to identify which technique(s) match the user's request
  2. Read the relevant file(s) from techniques/ — each file contains core principles, implementation steps, and complete code templates
  3. If you need deeper understanding (math derivations, advanced patterns), follow the reference link at the bottom of each technique file to reference/
  4. Apply the WebGL2 Adaptation Rules below when generating standalone HTML pages

Technique Routing Table

User wants to create... Primary technique Combine with
3D objects / scenes from math ray-marching + sdf-3d lighting-model, shadow-techniques
Complex 3D shapes (booleans, blends) csg-boolean-operations sdf-3d, ray-marching
Infinite repeating patterns in 3D domain-repetition sdf-3d, ray-marching
Organic / warped shapes domain-warping procedural-noise
Fluid / smoke / ink effects fluid-simulation multipass-buffer
Particle effects (fire, sparks, snow) particle-system procedural-noise, color-palette
Physically-based simulations simulation-physics multipass-buffer
Game of Life / reaction-diffusion cellular-automata multipass-buffer, color-palette
Ocean / water surface water-ocean atmospheric-scattering, lighting-model
Terrain / landscape terrain-rendering atmospheric-scattering, procedural-noise
Clouds / fog / volumetric fire volumetric-rendering procedural-noise, atmospheric-scattering
Sky / sunset / atmosphere atmospheric-scattering volumetric-rendering
Realistic lighting (PBR, Phong) lighting-model shadow-techniques, ambient-occlusion
Shadows (soft / hard) shadow-techniques lighting-model
Ambient occlusion ambient-occlusion lighting-model, normal-estimation
Path tracing / global illumination path-tracing-gi analytic-ray-tracing, multipass-buffer
Precise ray-geometry intersections analytic-ray-tracing lighting-model
Voxel worlds (Minecraft-style) voxel-rendering lighting-model, shadow-techniques
Noise / FBM textures procedural-noise domain-warping
Tiled 2D patterns procedural-2d-pattern polar-uv-manipulation
Voronoi / cell patterns voronoi-cellular-noise color-palette
Fractals (Mandelbrot, Julia, 3D) fractal-rendering color-palette, polar-uv-manipulation
Color grading / palettes color-palette
Bloom / tone mapping / glitch post-processing multipass-buffer
Multi-pass ping-pong buffers multipass-buffer
Texture / sampling techniques texture-sampling
Camera / matrix transforms matrix-transform
Surface normals normal-estimation
Polar coords / kaleidoscope polar-uv-manipulation procedural-2d-pattern
2D shapes / UI from SDF sdf-2d color-palette
Procedural audio / music sound-synthesis
SDF tricks / optimization sdf-tricks sdf-3d, ray-marching
Anti-aliased rendering anti-aliasing sdf-2d, post-processing
Depth of field / motion blur / lens effects camera-effects post-processing, multipass-buffer
Advanced texture mapping / no-tile textures texture-mapping-advanced terrain-rendering, texture-sampling
WebGL2 shader errors / debugging webgl-pitfalls

Read the full file on GitHub · 300 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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 · 300 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 7d3cc9d69da2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shader-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository leventilo/mobius (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 4,389 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to shader-dev, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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