prototype-lab

prototype-lab is a skill for Codex from markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A throwaway prototyping workflow for answering one specific product, interface, logic, data, or integration question before committing production code. Prototypes are kept easy to run, inspect, delete, or absorb later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test UI variants, state machines, parsers, scoring, workflows, data models, APIs, browser behavior, or deployment constraints.
Why use it?
It reduces the cost of exploring uncertain ideas and keeps experimental code from being mistaken for finished software.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to test UI variants, state machines, parsers, scoring, workflows, data models, APIs, browser behavior, or deployment constraints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills/prototype-lab
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 markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills --skill prototype-lab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills

Made for: 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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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 401 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 $0.00065 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash f15147fd35a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prototype-lab 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.

skills/prototype-lab/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Prototype Lab

A prototype answers one question. It is not production code with fewer tests.

Pick The Prototype Question

Choose the branch:

  • Logic prototype: state model, workflow, parser, scoring, queue, rules, or business logic.
  • UI prototype: layout direction, interaction model, variants, motion, or product feel.
  • Integration prototype: unknown API/tool behavior, deployment constraint, or browser capability.

If ambiguous, state the assumption and keep the artifact easy to delete.

Rules

  • Mark it as prototype/throwaway in path, UI, comments, or README.
  • Use one command to run.
  • Keep state in memory unless persistence is the thing being tested.
  • Avoid broad abstractions, production plumbing, and hidden dependencies.
  • Surface state after actions so learning is visible.
  • Do not leave prototype code mixed with production code without a decision.

UI Variant Pattern

When exploring design, create 2-4 meaningfully different variants. Let the user switch via route, query param, segmented control, or small debug toolbar. Do not make tiny color-only variations.

Logic Pattern

When exploring state, make a terminal or local web harness that can run scripted cases and manual interactions. Print current state, event, output, and invariant violations.

Closeout

When the prototype answers the question:

  • capture the decision in an issue, ADR, notes file, commit message, or final report;
  • delete the prototype or identify exactly what will be absorbed into production;
  • list what remains unproven.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 48 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A f15147fd35a8

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prototype-lab is a skill published in the GitHub repository markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 401 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 2026-09-03.