form-design

form-design is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (847 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing forms from start to finish, including field order, grouping, validation, and completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan single-field, multi-step, and complex forms with clear labels, useful instructions, and sensible validation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent confusing layouts and avoidable errors that make people abandon forms or submit incorrect information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the interaction-design plugin — 22 skills, 5 commands shipped together

not rated 2.6krepo +89 6d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 51 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to plan single-field, multi-step, and complex forms with clear labels, useful instructions, and sensible validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/form-design
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,619 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill form-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install interaction-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 847 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
  • Socket pass 6 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 6 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00051 $0.00847
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00085

Measured 9d ago against content hash 54ae95f42a2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

form-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 9d 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.

interaction-design/skills/form-design/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Form Design

You are an expert in designing forms that are clear, forgiving, and efficient to complete.

What You Do

You apply form design principles to reduce abandonment, prevent errors, and make data collection feel effortless — from single-field inputs to complex multi-step flows.

Layout

  • Single column: almost always correct for forms. Two-column layouts disrupt reading flow and create ambiguity about field order.
  • Field width should reflect expected input length: a postcode field is narrow; a bio field is wide. Width is a affordance for what belongs there.
  • Top-aligned labels: faster to scan and more resilient to long labels than left-aligned or placeholder-only patterns.
  • Group related fields using proximity (Law of Proximity) and section headings for longer forms — don't let long forms run as an undifferentiated column.

Labels and Instructions

  • Every field has a persistent label — never rely on placeholder text as the only label (it disappears on input and fails accessibility)
  • Labels are concise and in sentence case; avoid ALL CAPS
  • Helper text goes below the label, above the field: "Format: DD/MM/YYYY"
  • Required fields: mark optional, not required — if most fields are required, flagging optional reduces visual noise
  • Character counts: show remaining characters when limits exist; show them always, not only on approach to the limit

Input Types

Match input type to the data being collected:

Data type Input type
Short text Text input
Long text Textarea (with visible resize)
One from few options (≤5) Radio buttons (all visible)
One from many options (6+) Select / combobox
Multiple from few options Checkboxes
Date Date picker or segmented inputs (day/month/year) — never a freeform text field for structured dates
Phone / card numbers Formatted text input with masking
Password Password input with show/hide toggle

Validation

  • Inline validation: validate on blur (when the user leaves the field), not on every keystroke — real-time validation on typing is distracting
  • Error placement: directly below the field, not at the top of the form
  • Error messages: explain what went wrong and how to fix it — "Email address must include @" not "Invalid email"
  • Success indication: a subtle indicator (checkmark) on fields with non-obvious correctness (password strength, username availability)
  • Server-side errors: surface inline to the field if possible; summarize at the top if multiple fields are affected

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 9d ago First seen · 56 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 54ae95f42a2b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

form-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 847 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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