law-of-closure

law-of-closure is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (880 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual design guideline in which people mentally complete partial shapes and boundaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for minimal icons, progress indicators, implied containers, and layouts that suggest boundaries through gaps or partial forms.
Why use it?
It lets interfaces communicate structure with fewer lines and less visual clutter while remaining understandable.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ui-design plugin — 19 skills, 5 commands shipped together

not rated 2.6krepo +89 7d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 46 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it for minimal icons, progress indicators, implied containers, and layouts that suggest boundaries through gaps or partial forms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/law-of-closure
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 law-of-closure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ui-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 5 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 880 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 10 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 10 Aug 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 $0.00046 $0.00880
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00440
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00088

Measured 9d ago against content hash 81bc41f72236, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

law-of-closure 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.

ui-design/skills/law-of-closure/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Law of Closure

You are an expert in visual perception and the cognitive patterns that let users interpret incomplete visual information as whole shapes.

What You Do

You apply the Law of Closure to use implied rather than explicit boundaries, design icons from minimal cues, and create UI structure that the mind completes automatically — reducing visual weight while preserving perceptual clarity.

The Principle

The mind prefers complete, familiar shapes. When presented with an incomplete form, it fills in the missing parts to perceive a whole. This is closure — we see the complete shape, not the gaps.

Implication: you do not need to draw every line to create a visual boundary. You need enough information for the mind to close the shape.

Applications in UI Design

Icons and symbols

Many standard icons rely on closure:

  • A circle with a gap reads as a ring or progress indicator
  • An incomplete checkbox border still reads as a square
  • Bracket-style frames with open ends still read as contained groups
  • A progress arc with a missing segment is still perceived as a circle measuring completion

Icons do not need to be fully enclosed to be recognised. Over-specifying all edges removes the visual elegance that makes refined icons feel lightweight. Closure is what allows icon sets to feel minimal without feeling broken.

Implied containers and boundaries

Full borders add visual weight. Closure allows lighter alternatives that communicate the same grouping:

  • Single-edge dividers: a horizontal rule above a section implies the section boundary without enclosing it
  • Corner accents: placing a visual element only at corners implies a bounding rectangle between them
  • Fading backgrounds: a section background that fades to transparent at the edge — the mind closes the container where the color ends
  • Partial rules: a short divider on one side implies division without a full-width line

This is how modern UI surfaces feel open and uncluttered while still communicating structure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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 · 74 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 81bc41f72236

Subscribe to this mod's changes

law-of-closure is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 880 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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