volt-ui-design

volt-ui-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from owenHochwald/volt. It costs 77 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A design guide for Volt's terminal interface, built with Bubble Tea and Lip Gloss. It defines how colors, layouts, keyboard focus, motion, themes, accessibility, and different interface states should work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design, implement, or review Volt terminal screens, reusable components, themes, focus handling, and narrow or failure states.
Why use it?
It prevents individual screens from inventing inconsistent styles or keyboard behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/owenhochwald/volt/volt-ui-design
Any agent
npx skills add owenHochwald/volt --skill volt-ui-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owenHochwald/volt

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.

agentmods badge for volt-ui-design

README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 646 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00077 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00065

Measured 5d ago against content hash d14f90051516, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

volt-ui-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 5d 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/volt-ui-design/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Volt UI Design

Apply Volt's canonical design language without inventing component-local colors or interaction patterns.

Load the canonical references

Before UI work, read ../../../DESIGN_SYSTEM.md completely.

For themes, settings, configuration discovery, imports, exports, or custom colors, also read ../../../CUSTOMIZATION.md completely.

Treat those files as authoritative. Update the canonical document in the same change when intentionally extending the system.

Workflow

  1. Inspect the affected models, views, update paths, layout tests, and current screenshots or captures.
  2. List the relevant states before styling: idle, focused, busy, empty, success, partial failure, failure, disabled, cancelled, and narrow as applicable.
  3. Reuse the documented component vocabulary and semantic theme roles. Do not add raw color literals outside the design/theme layer.
  4. Preserve keyboard-first behavior. Define focus entry, movement, activation, cancellation, and focus return for new interactions.
  5. Follow the repository's test-driven workflow. Add a failing state or layout test, implement the smallest behavior, then refactor.
  6. Verify wide, focused, minimum-size, ANSI-256, and mono behavior in proportion to the change.
  7. Check animation cadence, stop conditions, stable widths, and reduced-motion behavior for any timed UI.
  8. Run focused tests and then the full Go test suite before handoff.

Design constraints

  • Keep the idle interface neutral and controlled. Use violet for brand/focus and charge for primary action/live execution.
  • Make focus visible through at least two properties and understandable without color.
  • Keep success, warning, error, HTTP methods, charts, brand, and focus as separate semantic roles.
  • Reserve the large ASCII logo for startup, About, and promotional output.
  • Prefer rails, separators, spacing, and alignment to nested rounded boxes.
  • Treat load testing as the visual centerpiece, with live progress, stable metrics, and a real bounded time series for sparklines.
  • Do not animate idle screens or decorative borders.
  • Do not let user themes alter layout, spacing, key behavior, or semantic meaning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 5d ago First seen · 70 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A d14f90051516

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volt-ui-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository owenHochwald/volt (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 646 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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