ai-smell-detector

ai-smell-detector is a skill for Codex from Lrinvl1203/world-class-web-design-os. It costs 50 tokens per session (341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for spotting generic patterns in AI-generated or heavily templated website interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect layouts, colors, components, imagery, motion, claims, and decorative elements, then decide whether each questionable choice should stay, change, be replaced, or be removed.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish choices that serve the brand or user from repeated defaults such as vague copy, decorative effects, identical cards, or unnecessary animation.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to inspect layouts, colors, components, imagery, motion, claims, and decorative elements, then decide whether each questionable choice should stay, change, be replaced, or be removed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lrinvl1203/world-class-web-design-os/ai-smell-detector
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 Lrinvl1203/world-class-web-design-os --skill ai-smell-detector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lrinvl1203/world-class-web-design-os

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 341 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 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 $0.00050 $0.00341
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured 12d ago against content hash e1f01af89fc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-smell-detector 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.

.codex/skills/ai-smell-detector/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

AI Smell Detector

Detect patterns, not forbidden shapes

The following are smells when repeated without a project-specific reason:

  • centered hero + generic eyebrow + two CTAs;
  • arbitrary bento/three-card feature grids;
  • gradient text and blue/purple glow as default “premium” styling;
  • glassmorphism with no material concept;
  • excessive pills/badges;
  • identical corner radius on every surface;
  • icon + heading + paragraph card repetition;
  • every section using the same fade-up reveal;
  • oversized vague claims with no evidence;
  • stock imagery with inconsistent lighting/crop;
  • generic font pairing with no typographic character;
  • floating decorative objects with no composition role;
  • 3D cursor/particles/parallax that communicate nothing.

Test each suspicious decision

Ask:

  1. What user/brand/content purpose does this serve?
  2. Would the design lose meaning if it were removed?
  3. Is this repeated because of a system or because it was an easy default?
  4. Does the choice appear in the references as a principle or as a copied fashion cue?
  5. Is there a more specific expression of the same intent?

Output

Classify each smell as: keep, adapt, replace, or remove, with the reason. Avoid redesigning merely to be unusual.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 39 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e1f01af89fc7

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ai-smell-detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lrinvl1203/world-class-web-design-os (8 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 341 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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