prototype

A throwaway prototype explores one unresolved logic, state, or visual design question through a small terminal tool or UI variants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare UI directions or exercise difficult state and logic cases, then record the decision and stop without treating the prototype as finished product code.
Why use it?
It lets the team experience and evaluate an uncertain idea before spending time on production implementation.

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/panda850819/verbs/prototype
Any agent
npx skills add panda850819/verbs --skill prototype
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/panda850819/verbs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 740 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 $0.00064 $0.00740
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00074

Measured 2d ago against content hash 739d46fa80c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prototype 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.

skills/engineering/prototype/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.

Prototype

A prototype is throwaway code that answers a question. The question decides the shape; the verdict outlives the code.

Pick the branch

Identify the question from the prompt and the surrounding code. If genuinely ambiguous, ask when the user is present; otherwise match the surrounding code (backend module → logic; page or component → UI) and state the assumption at the top of the prototype. Getting the branch wrong wastes the whole prototype.

  • "Does this logic / state model feel right?"LOGIC.md: a tiny interactive terminal app that pushes the state model through cases that are hard to reason about on paper.
  • "What should this look like?"UI.md: several structurally different variants on one route, switchable via ?variant= and a floating bottom bar. Single round by default; UI.md's converge mode runs repeated rounds down the visual design tree when the user (or a Decision Map entry) asks for it. Converge still only chooses a direction, at finer grain — it never becomes the production build.

Rules (both branches)

  1. Throwaway from day one, clearly marked. Locate it next to the module or page it prototypes so context is obvious; name it so a casual reader sees prototype, not production. Obey the project's existing routing and task conventions — invent no new top-level structure.
  2. One command to run, via the project's existing task runner. The user starts it without thinking.
  3. No persistence by default. State lives in memory. If the question is explicitly about persistence, hit a scratch store named "PROTOTYPE — wipe me".
  4. Skip the polish. No tests, no error handling beyond what makes it runnable, no abstractions. The point is to learn fast.
  5. Surface the state. After every action (logic) or variant switch (UI), show the full relevant state so the user sees what changed.

Capture when done

Done means the question is answered AND captured:

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 First seen · 74 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 739d46fa80c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prototype is a skill published in the GitHub repository panda850819/verbs (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 740 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 2026-08-31.

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