prototype-builder

prototype-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for the full prototype-building process, from checking the plan through confirming the layout and building components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the main entry point when creating a working prototype from an approved Discovery Plan.
Why use it?
It prevents a prototype from being built before its goals and design have been reviewed and approved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the exploration-cycle-plugin plugin — 20 skills, 15 agents shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install exploration-cycle-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 15 agents.

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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.

agentmods badge for prototype-builder

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/prototype-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/prototype-builder.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,147 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 $0.00076 $0.01147
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00574
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00115

Measured yesterday against content hash 783984366026, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prototype-builder 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 yesterday.

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/exploration-cycle-plugin/skills/prototype-builder/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role

This skill coordinates the full prototype build cycle. It does NOT build components directly. Building is handled by subagent-driven-prototyping. Layout confirmation is handled by visual-companion. This skill connects those two steps and guides the SME through the full journey from plan to working prototype.

HARD-GATE Check

This is the first thing that runs, before any other step.

Check: does exploration/discovery-plans/ exist and contain at least one .md file?

If NO plan exists:

"Before we can build, I need to understand what we're building first. Can we start with a planning session? It only takes a few minutes and it'll make sure what we build is exactly what you need."

Stop. Do not continue. Do not suggest workarounds. Do not attempt to build without a plan.

If a plan file exists: Read the most recent .md file in exploration/discovery-plans/. Check that it contains either:

  • A ## SME Approval section, or
  • A PLAN_STATUS: APPROVED line

If neither is present:

"A Discovery Plan exists but hasn't been approved yet. Please review the plan and confirm approval before we begin building."

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

Files

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.

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. yesterday First seen · 118 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 783984366026

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prototype-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,147 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.