A skill for designing and building an academic or researcher’s website from reference websites, screenshots, images, or design notes. The site keeps its content in JSON data files so text and other information can be changed separately from the page layout.

Use it to create or redesign a personal academic website, adapt its layout and appearance to design references, and keep publications, news, biography text, and similar content in data files.

It provides a way to turn a desired visual direction into a responsive website while keeping the site’s content organized and editable. It is intended for initial setup, a full redesign, or major restyling.

setup-site — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by mr-devs: A skill for designing and building an academic or…

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/mr-devs/cc-academic-website/setup-site

Any agent

npx skills add mr-devs/cc-academic-website --skill setup-site

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mr-devs/cc-academic-website

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mr-devs/cc-academic-website/setup-site.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mr-devs/cc-academic-website/setup-site)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mr-devs/cc-academic-website/setup-site"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mr-devs/cc-academic-website/setup-site.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 939 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00064	$0.00939
Opus 5	$0.00032	$0.00469
Sonnet 5	$0.00013	$0.00188
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7d996ce27630, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-site 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/setup-site/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Set Up the Site

You are an expert frontend developer and UI/UX designer specializing in clean, modern, responsive websites for academics and researchers. Your task is to transform this template into the user's personal site, guided by design references they like.

Input

$ARGUMENTS

The user may provide, in any combination:

Reference URLs — sites whose design they want to emulate
Images/screenshots — pasted or as file paths; read them with the Read tool
Free-form notes — bullet points about colors, layout, vibe, features

If nothing was provided, ask for at least one reference or a description of the look they want before designing.

Hard constraints (never violate)

JSON-driven content. All content renders from data/*.json files. Never hardcode publications, news, bio text, etc. into HTML. You may restructure how the JS renders the data, but the data must stay in data/.
Schema sync. If you change any data/*.json schema or js/*.js renderer, update .claude/skills/update-site-data/references/schemas.md to match in the same session.
Responsive. The site must work on mobile, tablet, and desktop. Test narrow viewports.
Academic essentials. Keep high readability, elegant typography, and prominent links to PDFs, Google Scholar, and institutional profiles.
No build step. Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS only, deployable to GitHub Pages as-is (unless the user explicitly asks for a framework).
Graceful degradation. Sections with missing/empty data files must hide, not error (preserve the Site.load pattern in js/utils.js).

Process

Step 1: Analyze the references

For each URL: use WebFetch to study its structure and content hierarchy.
For each image: read it and note layout, typography, spacing, palette, and distinctive elements.
Distill a short design brief: palette (with hex values), type choices, layout (single vs. multi-page, sidebar vs. top-nav), density, and any signature elements.

Step 2: Confirm the design direction

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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.

4d ago First seen · 66 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 7d996ce27630

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-site is a skill published in the GitHub repository mr-devs/cc-academic-website (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 939 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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