calculator-design

calculator-design is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (4,787 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing interactive calculators such as pricing estimators, savings projections, mortgage calculators, and return-on-investment tools. It focuses on giving users results they can understand and use in decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan the calculations, explain the method, show trustworthy results, and design ways for users to save or receive a useful analysis.
Why use it?
It helps avoid calculators that hide the answer, use unsupported assumptions, or collect contact details without providing useful information.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan the calculations, explain the method, show trustworthy results, and design ways for users to save or receive a useful analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/calculator-design
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill calculator-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,787 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
  • 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 $0.00145 $0.04787
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.02393
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00957
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00479

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8ed49b035454, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

calculator-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.

skills/calculator-design/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Calculator Design

A senior growth practitioner's playbook for designing interactive calculators that deliver real decision-support value while serving as lead magnets and qualified-traffic generators. ROI calculators, pricing estimators, savings projections, mortgage calculators, custom assessments. The discipline of building a tool the audience actually trusts.

Most calculators on the web are bait. Random multipliers behind official-looking math; an "Industry Average" number that does not cite a source; the result hidden behind a contact-sales form. The calculator captures emails because the format implies calculation; the leads are unqualified because the calculator did not actually help anyone decide anything.

The calculators that work as compounding assets do something different. They give the audience a result they can defend to a stakeholder. They show the methodology so the result is interrogatable. They capture leads through value (a PDF report, a save-and-compare account, a custom analysis) rather than through manipulation.

This skill is one of the specific lead-magnet types covered as its own skill. The parent-frame methodology lives in lead-magnet-design; the calculator-specific methodology (calculation transparency, tiered value, methodology disclosure) lives here.

The voice is the senior growth practitioner who has watched calculators earn long-term credibility and watched them burn it within weeks of launch. Practical, opinionated about transparency, willing to say when a calculator is the wrong investment for the goal.

When to use this skill: scoping a calculator for the first time, auditing a calculator that converts but does not qualify, designing the methodology disclosure that earns audience trust, or deciding which features warrant the email gate.


What this skill covers

This skill spans calculator design as one specific lead-magnet type. The growth-tooling distinctions:

  • lead-magnet-design is the parent-frame methodology (when to invest in any magnet, format selection, audience-fit, follow-up sequence). Calculators are one specific lead-magnet type.
  • calculator-design (this skill) is calculator-specific methodology (calculation transparency, tiered value, methodology disclosure, input design).
  • quiz-and-assessment-design is a sister tool type. Calculators give numbers; quizzes give categories. The methodology differs.
  • landing-page-copy is the calculator landing page (downstream of calculator design).
  • pm-spec-writing is writing the spec for engineers building the calculator. This skill is about WHAT to build; pm-spec-writing is about communicating it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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 · 303 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 8ed49b035454

Subscribe to this mod's changes

calculator-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (830 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 4,787 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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