midas-harness: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/midas-design/SKILL.md

midas-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from okuzpe/midas-harness. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,568 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured process for redesigning a product interface, from auditing the current UI through proposing three visual directions and writing a specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a landing-page, hero, brand, or UI redesign, then optionally implement one selected slice after human approval.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent from changing the interface before understanding the product's jobs, visual direction, and required review points.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is okuzpe/midas-harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on midas-harness itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything midas-harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to okuzpe/midas-harness. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/okuzpe/midas-harness/main/.agents/skills/midas-design/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/okuzpe/midas-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,568 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 $0.00074 $0.01568
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00784
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00157

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9605a68f4a63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

midas-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 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.

.agents/skills/midas-design/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

midas-design — authentic redesign (think before JSX)

Guard + state: <paths.engine>/templates/skill-state-ritual.md (+ AGENTS.md § Safety / Path resolution). Prompt tool: AskQuestion. On Claude Code, fall back to AskUserQuestion if AskQuestion is not wired. Read paths.state. No UI / no {product}/ → report and stop. Record shape: <paths.engine>/templates/design-record.md. Authenticity CHECKs: <paths.engine>/rules/visual-design.md § Product authenticity.

Stops interchangeable AI-SaaS landings. Does not freeze Phase 5 rules; does not advance stage.

Does / Does not

Does Does not
Audit current UI vs product jobs + direction Invent taste when direction is empty — ask or mark assumed (confirm)
Propose exactly 3 substantially different art directions Copy one reference wholesale
Spec + optional one implement slice after human pick Redesign the whole site in one shot
Freeze {runs}/design/design-NN.md; amend direction only on human OK Replace /define-conventions or /midas-verify

When to run

User asks to improve / redesign / refactor design, landing, hero, brand feel, or "make it less generic". Also when /midas-verify or tribunal Design Critic flags generic UI.

When NOT: Phase 5 first freeze → /define-conventions. Token-only tweak with frozen direction → implement under /start-sprint. Proof only → /midas-verify.

Modes (--mode, default progressive)

Mode Stops after Writes
audit UX audit record (directions empty)
directions 3 directions + recommendation record; wait for human pick
spec page/hero spec + wireframe record (requires chosen direction)
implement one approved slice in code record + code (requires spec)

Default path when user says "redesign X": run through directions, stop for pick, then on confirm continue spec → optional implement --slice ….

Procedure

1. Load context (scout)

Read paths.state, {product}/idea.md, {product}/design-direction.md, {product}/design-system.md (+ tokens), architecture, and the target surface (routes/components). If direction lacks Metaphor or First viewport, treat as incomplete — fill proposals marked assumed (confirm) before inventing UI.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 4d ago Changed 9605a68f4a63
  2. 9d ago First seen · 109 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 5a9e084b9783

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midas-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository okuzpe/midas-harness (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,568 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 2026-08-31.

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