simplified-views

simplified-views is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (769 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for offering a simpler version of a complex interface, with fewer visible choices and less visual clutter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design simple modes for settings, dashboards, and complex tools, while keeping advanced options available when needed.
Why use it?
It helps people who find advanced tools overwhelming, including new users, older adults, and people with cognitive disabilities.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the adaptive-interfaces plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design simple modes for settings, dashboards, and complex tools, while keeping advanced options available when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/simplified-views
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/inclusive-design-skills --skill simplified-views
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adaptive-interfaces, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 769 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.
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 $0.00084 $0.00769
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00077

Measured 12d ago against content hash 03b85a7a36f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplified-views 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 12d 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.

adaptive-interfaces/skills/simplified-views/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simplified Views

Design interfaces that offer a simpler version of themselves — fewer options, less visual complexity, clearer paths — for users who need or prefer reduced complexity.

Who This Is For

  • People with cognitive disabilities who are overwhelmed by complex interfaces
  • Older adults who prefer simpler, more predictable tools
  • New users who don't need advanced features yet
  • Anyone in a stressful or low-energy context
  • People using assistive technology where less clutter means faster navigation

Core Principle

The simplified view is not a lesser version. It's a focused version that contains everything needed for the core tasks and nothing that isn't.

Design Patterns

Feature Layering

  • Identify core tasks (what 80% of users do 80% of the time)
  • Show core features by default
  • Advanced features accessible via "Show more" or "Advanced"
  • Never require the advanced view to complete basic tasks
  • The simplified view should feel complete, not stripped

Progressive Complexity

  • Start simple, let users add complexity as they need it
  • Onboarding should begin in simplified mode
  • Offer to increase complexity when the user demonstrates comfort
  • "You might also want to try..." not "You're in basic mode"
  • Never make users feel that simplified = inferior

Dashboard Simplification

  • Default dashboard: 3–5 key metrics, primary actions
  • Full dashboard: all metrics, secondary actions, configuration
  • Let users choose which cards/widgets to show
  • Remember their choice across sessions
  • Provide preset layouts: "Essential", "Detailed", "Custom"

Navigation Simplification

  • Simplified nav: top-level items only
  • Full nav: all levels visible
  • Both must reach all content — simplified may need more clicks but each click should be obvious
  • Breadcrumbs help users who take the longer path

Form Simplification

  • Show required fields only by default
  • "Show optional fields" expands the form
  • Smart defaults reduce decisions
  • Break complex forms into steps in simplified mode, show all fields on one page in advanced mode

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 12d ago First seen · 98 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 03b85a7a36f0

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simplified-views is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 769 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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