Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to poteto/noodle. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poteto/noodle/main/.agents/skills/make-interfaces-feel-better/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poteto/noodleWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/poteto/noodle/make-interfaces-feel-better"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/poteto/noodle/make-interfaces-feel-better.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00096 | $0.01335 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00534 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00267 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00134 |
Grade A, and why
make-interfaces-feel-better 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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
75% identical to polish — 137 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Details that make interfaces feel better
Great interfaces rarely come from a single thing. It's usually a collection of small details that compound into a great experience. Apply these principles when building or reviewing UI code.
Quick Reference
| Category | When to Read |
|---|---|
| Typography | Text wrapping, font smoothing, tabular numbers |
| Surfaces | Border radius, optical alignment, shadows, image outlines, hit areas |
| Animations | Interruptible animations, enter/exit transitions, icon animations, scale on press |
| Performance | Transition specificity, will-change usage |
Core Principles
1. Concentric Border Radius
Outer radius = inner radius + padding. Mismatched radii on nested elements is the most common thing that makes interfaces feel off.
2. Optical Over Geometric Alignment
When geometric centering looks off, align optically. Buttons with icons, play triangles, and asymmetric icons all need manual adjustment.
3. Shadows Over Borders
Layer multiple transparent box-shadow values for natural depth. Shadows adapt to any background; solid borders don't.
4. Interruptible Animations
Use CSS transitions for interactive state changes — they can be interrupted mid-animation. Reserve keyframes for staged sequences that run once.
5. Split and Stagger Enter Animations
Don't animate a single container. Break content into semantic chunks and stagger each with ~100ms delay.
6. Subtle Exit Animations
Use a small fixed translateY instead of full height. Exits should be softer than enters.
7. Contextual Icon Animations
Animate icons with opacity, scale, and blur instead of toggling visibility. Use exactly these values: scale from 0.25 to 1, opacity from 0 to 1, blur from 4px to 0px. If the project has motion or framer-motion in package.json, use transition: { type: "spring", duration: 0.3, bounce: 0 } — bounce must always be 0. If no motion library is installed, keep both icons in the DOM (one absolute-positioned) and cross-fade with CSS transitions using cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0, 1) — this gives both enter and exit animations without any dependency.
What ships with it
4 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 9921622e04a2
make-interfaces-feel-better is a skill published in the GitHub repository poteto/noodle (529 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,335 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 75% identical to polish, differing in 137 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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