prototype

A prototyping workflow that recreates part of your local interface in Magic Patterns, a browser-based design tool, and then uses it as the starting point for exploring a new idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore new screens, features, and interface directions based on an existing local UI, then share the resulting Magic Patterns editor link.
Why use it?
It lets you try a new interface in the context of an existing product instead of describing the product from scratch. The result is a visual prototype, not a production application.

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/magicpatterns/agent-plugins/prototype
Any agent
npx skills add magicpatterns/agent-plugins --skill prototype
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magicpatterns/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,718 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 $0.00096 $0.01718
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00859
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00172

Measured yesterday against content hash 631744b43ed0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prototype 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 yesterday.

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.

claude-code/plugins/magic-patterns/skills/prototype/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prototype an idea in Magic Patterns

Use this skill when the user has an idea they want to prototype and wants it grounded in the UI they already have. It seeds a Magic Patterns design from the relevant local UI, then prompts Magic Patterns to design the idea, hands back the editor link, and opens it in the browser.

It composes two mechanisms, used in order, for different jobs — not interchangeably:

  • Seed (deterministic): recreate the relevant existing local UI with recreate-as-react and write it into a blank design (the upload-to-magic-patterns flow). This recreates what already exists — it does NOT build the new idea.
  • Prototype the idea (creative): once seeded and published, use send_prompt to let Magic Patterns design the net-new idea. This is where the prototyping happens — let Magic Patterns do the creative heavy lifting; don't hand-build it.

Direct file writes after seeding are reserved for precise, deterministic tweaks (rename a label, swap a color, port one specific local component) — never for generating the new concept.

Magic Patterns renders visual prototypes, not production apps — local code must be ported to its constraints (handled by recreate-as-react; see upload-to-magic-patterns).

Prerequisites

  • The Magic Patterns MCP server must be connected (tools prefixed magic-patterns). If the tools are unavailable, tell the user to install/enable the Magic Patterns plugin or MCP server, and stop.
  • Magic Patterns MCP usage requires a paid plan. A Payment Required / credits error means the user must upgrade at magicpatterns.com/settings.

When to use

  • This skill (prototype): the user wants to prototype or evolve an idea grounded in their existing UI, and iterate on it.

  • upload-to-magic-patterns: just mirror local UI into a hosted design, no iteration.

  • integrate-magic-patterns-design: bring a Magic Patterns design back into the codebase as production code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. yesterday First seen · 94 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 631744b43ed0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prototype is a skill published in the GitHub repository magicpatterns/agent-plugins (0 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,718 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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