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.
npx skills add memi-design/design-skills --skill better-uigit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/memi-design/design-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/memi-design/design-skills/better-ui)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/memi-design/design-skills/better-ui"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/memi-design/design-skills/better-ui/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/memi-design/design-skills/better-ui"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/memi-design/design-skills/better-ui.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00082 | $0.01694 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00033 | $0.00678 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00339 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00169 |
Grade A, and why
better-ui 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Details that make interfaces feel better
Great interfaces rarely come from a single thing. It's usually a collection of small details that compound into a great experience. Apply these principles when building or reviewing UI code.
Typography (text wrapping, font smoothing, tabular numbers, spacing) is covered by the better-typography skill; use that for anything text-related.
Custom shaders, dithering, particles, and GPU-driven distortions are outside this broad polish workflow. Route their implementation to shader-design-engineering and their evidence-backed review to creative-rendering-audit.
Quick Reference
| Category | When to Use |
|---|---|
| Surfaces | Border radius, optical alignment, shadows, image outlines, hit areas |
| Animations | Interruptible animations, enter/exit transitions, icon animations, scale on press |
| Performance | Transition specificity, will-change usage |
Core Principles
1. Concentric Border Radius
Outer radius = inner radius + padding. Mismatched radii on nested elements is the most common thing that makes interfaces feel off.
2. Optical Over Geometric Alignment
When geometric centering looks off, align optically. Buttons with icons, play triangles, and asymmetric icons all need manual adjustment.
3. Shadows Over Borders
Layer multiple transparent box-shadow values for natural depth. Shadows adapt to any background; solid borders don't.
4. Interruptible Animations
Use CSS transitions for interactive state changes: they can be interrupted mid-animation. Reserve keyframes for staged sequences that run once.
5. Split and Stagger Enter Animations
Don't animate a single container. Break content into semantic chunks and stagger each with ~100ms delay.
6. Subtle Exit Animations
Use a small fixed translateY instead of full height. Exits should be softer than enters.
7. Contextual Icon Animations
Animate icons with opacity, scale, and blur instead of toggling visibility. Use exactly these values: scale from 0.25 to 1, opacity from 0 to 1, blur from 4px to 0px. If the project has motion or framer-motion in package.json, use transition: { type: "spring", duration: 0.3, bounce: 0 }; bounce must always be 0. If no motion library is installed, keep both icons in the DOM (one absolute-positioned) and cross-fade with CSS transitions using cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1); this gives both enter and exit animations without any dependency.
What ships with it
5 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 128 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 39bd97b43f81
better-ui is a skill published in the GitHub repository memi-design/design-skills (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,694 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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