design-variants

design-variants is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating several different design directions for one screen or user-interface surface, then showing them in a gallery for selection. It is for exploring options, not finishing one final design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore layouts and visual directions for a page, dashboard, form, or other interface.
Why use it?
It makes competing interface ideas easier to compare before implementation begins. It also brings in user flows and cases such as empty results, errors, mobile screens, and long names.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to explore layouts and visual directions for a page, dashboard, form, or other interface.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/design-variants
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill design-variants
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: 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.

agentmods badge for design-variants

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,226 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00041 $0.01226
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 2d ago against content hash b4deacad6f35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-variants 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.devin/skills/design-variants/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design variants

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger the user runs /design-variants
Authority Reversible local: writes only design variant pages and files under a per-project design directory; rollback is deleting that directory. No remote mutation.
Side effect local-write to a design directory; no project source, VCS, credential, or remote mutation
Done A variant gallery is ready, an approved record is saved to the design directory, and the taste record is updated

Inputs

Required: a screen or surface to explore, named by the user or inferred from the request.

When optional context is absent, gather it across five dimensions: who the design is for, the job to be done on that screen, what already exists in the codebase, the user flow in and out, and edge cases (long names, zero results, error states, mobile, first-time vs power user). A project design-system document, if present, is the default visual constraint unless the user says otherwise. Prior approved designs for the project, if present, bias generation toward demonstrated taste.

Procedure

  1. Bound the output directory before any generation: a per-project design folder that persists across branches and conversations. Never write variants to project source, a context cache, a docs tree, or a system temp directory. Done when: the output directory is named and bounded.

  2. Gather context across the five dimensions. Auto-read any project design-system document and list existing components and pages first; pre-fill what was inferred, then ask only for the gaps in one combined question. Stop gathering after two rounds and proceed with stated assumptions. Done when: the five dimensions are filled or two gather rounds have elapsed with stated assumptions.

  3. Read prior approved-design records for the project. If they exist, extract the strongest taste signals (fonts, colors, layouts, aesthetics the user approved and rejected) and bias generation toward them. If a current request contradicts a strong prior signal, flag the conflict and ask whether to update the taste record or treat this as a one-off before proceeding. Done when: taste signals are extracted and any conflict is flagged and resolved.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 2d ago Changed · -14 tokens per session b4deacad6f35
  2. 5d ago First seen · 55 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9566b64ed0cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-variants is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,226 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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