balise-visual-references

balise-visual-references is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mrstev3n/balise-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,068 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for finding visual examples and turning supplied screenshots or links into original design decisions for Figma. It covers interfaces, websites, mobile products, brands, and other design work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose search sources and terms, collect reference screenshots or links, and analyze them for patterns in layouts, components, typography, flows, or visual direction.
Why use it?
It helps when you know the design problem but do not know where to find useful examples or how to learn from them. It also avoids treating an uninspected link as proof of what a page currently looks like.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose search sources and terms, collect reference screenshots or links, and analyze them for patterns in layouts, components, typography, flows, or visual direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrstev3n/balise-skills/balise-visual-references
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 mrstev3n/balise-skills --skill balise-visual-references
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrstev3n/balise-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,068 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 $0.00078 $0.02068
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01034
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00207

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3370333fc372, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

balise-visual-references 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 12d 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.

figma-skills/balise-visual-references/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual References for Figma

Guide the user from a design question to a useful reference set, then translate the selected examples into original design decisions. Work entirely from this file and from material the user supplies. Do not assume access to a browser, external connector, MCP, API, or private reference library.

Operating rule

Separate the workflow into two phases:

  1. Recommend and collect: propose sources, search terms, and capture instructions; ask the user to visit the sources and attach selected screenshots or links.
  2. Analyze and apply: inspect only the material supplied in the conversation or available in the Figma file, then derive principles for the current design.

Do not describe a source or reference as inspected until its visual content is actually available. A URL alone may identify provenance but does not prove the current visual state of the page.

Frame the request

Identify:

  • the deliverable: website, mobile app, desktop product, dashboard, brand system, deck, campaign, email, or another surface;
  • the target pattern: app bar, navigation, hero, cards, table, form, onboarding, pricing, search, settings, empty state, motion, typography, or another reusable problem;
  • the desired granularity: system, page, section, screen, component, flow, interaction, or asset;
  • the project context: audience, market, industry, tone, device, content density, accessibility, and technical constraints;
  • the decision the references should clarify.

If essential context is missing, ask at most one concise question before recommending sources.

Recommend a focused route

Choose three to five complementary sources. Favor specialist libraries over general inspiration feeds. For each recommendation, include:

Source Why it fits Starting URL Search terms or route What to capture

Use precise queries that combine the product, component, state, and context. Examples:

  • mobile banking bottom navigation active state
  • B2B SaaS data table bulk actions
  • editorial mobile app bar scroll behavior
  • onboarding permission request before after
  • pricing comparison enterprise SaaS
  • empty state no results filters dashboard

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 12d ago First seen · 139 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 3370333fc372

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balise-visual-references is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrstev3n/balise-skills (11 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,068 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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