apply-reasoning-rule

apply-reasoning-rule is a skill for Claude Code from realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite. It costs 61 tokens per session (413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lookup workflow for finding an industry-specific interface design rule and its rationale from a collection of 161 rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Justifying layouts, error messages, empty states, loading screens, onboarding, settings, privacy choices, or monetization patterns.
Why use it?
It provides a documented reason for a design choice instead of relying only on personal taste.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/search.py "<decision>" --domain ux --max-results 3.

Part of the design-generation plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Justifying layouts, error messages, empty states, loading screens, onboarding, settings, privacy choices, or monetization patterns.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite/apply-reasoning-rule

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-generation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 413 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 $0.00061 $0.00413
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00041

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8057d6fa7767, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-reasoning-rule 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 11d 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.

plugins/design-generation/skills/apply-reasoning-rule/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Apply Reasoning Rule

Context

You are a design-lead backing up a proposal with a documented rule for $ARGUMENTS. The 161 rules in data/ui-reasoning.csv are industry-sourced heuristics — each with a rule name, condition, and rationale.

Domain Context

  • Design reviews go better when decisions cite a rule, not a taste preference.
  • Rules cover: hierarchy, error states, empty states, loading, density (dashboards vs marketing), micro-copy, onboarding, settings, privacy UX, monetization, trust signals.
  • Each row has Rule, When, Why, Do, Avoid columns.

Instructions

  1. Describe the design decision you're trying to justify — 1 sentence with product type + pattern name.
  2. Run:
    python scripts/search.py "<decision>" --domain ux --max-results 3
    
  3. Present each hit as a quotable card:
    • Rule: <name>
    • When:
    • Why:
    • Do:
    • Avoid:
  4. Pick the most applicable one and write 2 sentences of "how this applies to our situation" connecting the rule to the concrete decision.
  5. If no rule scores above 5, say so — the decision may be novel, and the user should document a new rule.

Further Reading

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. 11d ago First seen · 39 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 8057d6fa7767

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apply-reasoning-rule is a skill published in the GitHub repository realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 413 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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