level-design

level-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from medy-gribkov/arcana. It costs 23 tokens per session (3,533 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to designing video-game levels, including how players move through spaces, learn challenges, explore, and understand where to go.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan level structures such as linear paths or hub-and-spoke areas, set difficulty progression, guide player movement, and tell stories through the environment.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing layouts, uneven difficulty, poor pacing, and environments that do not support the intended game experience.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan level structures such as linear paths or hub-and-spoke areas, set difficulty progression, guide player movement, and tell stories through the environment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/medy-gribkov/arcana/level-design
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 medy-gribkov/arcana --skill level-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/medy-gribkov/arcana

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin level-design/plugin install level-design after adding the marketplace above.

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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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,533 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 $0.00023 $0.03533
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01767
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00707
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00353

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5fddec1a422b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

level-design 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/level_planner.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/level-design/SKILL.md · 396 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 396 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Level Design

Level Design Philosophy

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    LEVEL DESIGN PILLARS                     │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  1. FLOW: Guide the player naturally through space         │
│  2. PACING: Control intensity and rest moments             │
│  3. DISCOVERY: Reward exploration and curiosity            │
│  4. CLARITY: Player always knows where to go               │
│  5. CHALLENGE: Skill tests that teach and satisfy          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Level Structure Patterns

LINEAR LEVEL:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  [Start] → [Tutorial] → [Challenge] → [Boss] → [End]       │
│                                                              │
│  PROS: Easy to pace, clear direction                        │
│  CONS: Limited replay value, less exploration              │
│  BEST FOR: Story-driven games, action games                │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

HUB & SPOKE:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              [Level A]                                       │
│                  ↑                                           │
│  [Level B] ← [HUB] → [Level C]                              │
│                  ↓                                           │
│              [Level D]                                       │
│                                                              │
│  PROS: Player choice, non-linear progression                │
│  CONS: Can feel disconnected                                │
│  BEST FOR: RPGs, Metroidvanias, open-world                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

METROIDVANIA:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ┌───┐   ┌───┐   ┌───┐                                      │
│  │ A │───│ B │───│ C │ (locked: need ability X)            │
│  └─┬─┘   └───┘   └───┘                                      │
│    │       │                                                 │
│  ┌─┴─┐   ┌─┴─┐                                              │
│  │ D │───│ E │ (grants ability X)                          │
│  └───┘   └───┘                                              │
│                                                              │
│  PROS: Rewarding exploration, ability gating                │
│  CONS: Can get lost, backtracking tedium                   │
│  BEST FOR: Exploration games, 2D platformers               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 396 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 396 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 5fddec1a422b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

level-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository medy-gribkov/arcana (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 3,533 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.