genui

genui is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-octo/octo-agent. It costs 98 tokens per session (4,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to render structured information as interactive or glanceable components in chat. It supports items such as cards, tables, lists, charts, diagrams, code blocks, and form controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to present statistics, filterable tables, charts, diagrams, progress indicators, callouts, quizzes, forms, and other small user interfaces in chat.
Why use it?
It makes dashboards and other structured results easier to scan than a long plain-text response. The available interaction depends on where the response is being displayed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to present statistics, filterable tables, charts, diagrams, progress indicators, callouts, quizzes, forms, and other small user interfaces in chat.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-octo/octo-agent/genui
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 open-octo/octo-agent --skill genui
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-octo/octo-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,175 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 275
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00098 $0.04175
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02087
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00835
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00417

Measured 10d ago against content hash e187128ebf9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

genui 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 10d 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.

internal/skills/defaults/genui/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GenUI

GenUI lets you describe a small UI tree as JSON — cards, stats, tables, lists, badges, progress bars, callouts, charts, diagrams, code blocks, and form controls — and have it render as real components in the chat instead of you writing the same information out as prose or a markdown table. There are two ways to emit a spec; which one to use depends on what you're building and where the reply is going. Read "The two output surfaces" before picking.

The two output surfaces

1. The render_ui tool. Call it with {"spec": {"title"?: string, "items": GenuiNode[]}}. Read-only components only — no buttons, no inputs. The tool validates and clamps your spec server-side and returns it on the same channel other tools use for rich result cards, so it renders as a tool-result card in the Web UI. This is the only surface available in every transport, but "every transport" doesn't mean "the card is visible everywhere": IM and the TUI never show tool-result cards at all — they show only your plain-text reply for that turn. If you call render_ui in an IM or TUI conversation, follow it with a plain-text reply that stands on its own; don't assume the user saw the card.

2. An inline ```octo-ui fence in your reply text. Write a fenced code block with the language tag octo-ui whose body is a GenUI spec (same shape as render_ui's spec argument). This is the only surface that supports the interactive node types (see below), and it renders as a live component tree inline with the rest of your markdown — but only in a Web UI chat session. IM and the TUI cannot render a component tree, so they replace the fence with a plain placeholder line before the user ever sees it. There is no reliable signal available to you, in the turn itself, telling you which transport you're replying into — so decide whether to use an inline fence from ordinary conversational context (has the user been interacting with a visual UI this session? did they mention a phone/chat app?), and when genuinely unsure, prefer the render_ui tool plus a self-contained plain-text reply over an inline fence, since the tool path degrades safely everywhere and the fence does not.

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 10d ago First seen · 280 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A e187128ebf9f

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genui is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-octo/octo-agent (97 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 4,175 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.