ai-output-design

ai-output-design is a skill for Claude Code from RBraga01/builder-design. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,855 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for displaying AI-generated replies in an app, including streamed text, formatted data, citations, code, uncertainty, and accessibility features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing chat replies, markdown rendering, tables, code blocks, citations, or confidence indicators that people will read.
Why use it?
It prevents model responses from appearing as unstructured walls of text or hiding how reliable an answer may be.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the builder-design plugin — 8 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing chat replies, markdown rendering, tables, code blocks, citations, or confidence indicators that people will read.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rbraga01/builder-design/ai-output-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add RBraga01/builder-design --skill ai-output-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RBraga01/builder-design

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install builder-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 5 agents.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,855 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 $0.00038 $0.01855
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00928
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00186

Measured 10d ago against content hash 110e29e44d12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-output-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 10d 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/ai-output-design/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Output Design

The Law

AI OUTPUT IS NOT STATIC CONTENT.
"Just render the markdown" and "the model formats it" both ship walls of unstyled text with no hierarchy, no confidence signals, and no accessibility layer.
Defined rendering rules + typographic hierarchy + confidence signals IS output design.

When to Use

Trigger when:

  • Designing how model responses are displayed in any UI surface
  • Adding markdown rendering to an AI response container
  • Designing how structured data from the model (tables, lists, code) is presented
  • Designing the visual treatment for uncertainty or low-confidence responses
  • Reviewing whether existing AI output rendering is production-quality

When NOT to Use

  • Output that is always structured JSON consumed by the system, not displayed to users
  • Backend pipelines where no human reads the model output directly

The Output Rendering Stack

1 — Markdown Rendering

Model responses contain markdown. Define which elements to render and how:

Element Render as Notes
# H1 Use sparingly in responses — demote to H3 H1 inside a response clashes with page hierarchy
**bold** <strong> Full weight only; no extra color
_italic_ <em> Used for emphasis, not decoration
`inline code` <code class="inline"> Monospace, tinted background
```code block``` Syntax-highlighted <pre><code> Language label, copy button, max-height with scroll
- list <ul> with custom bullet 0.5rem gap between items
1. ordered <ol> Numbers bold, content regular weight
> blockquote Left bar, muted text Use for citations or model asides
` table `
--- <hr> Thin, muted; use sparingly

Rules:

  • Never render raw HTML from model output (XSS risk — sanitise or use a safe renderer)
  • H1 and H2 inside responses should be demoted (H1 → H3, H2 → H4) to preserve page hierarchy
  • Long code blocks: max-height 400px, scroll inside, copy button visible without scrolling

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 10d ago First seen · 188 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 110e29e44d12

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ai-output-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository RBraga01/builder-design (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,855 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 2026-08-31.

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