prototype-builder

prototype-builder is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (438 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 Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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

Good fit Use it as the main entry point when creating a working prototype from an approved Discovery Plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/prototype-builder
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 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.

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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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 438 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 $0.00029 $0.00438
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00175
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 17d ago against content hash 9193f10c959a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 17d 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/exploration-cycle-plugin/skills/prototype-builder/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Prototype Builder (prototype-builder)

Orchestrates the prototype build cycle from approved Discovery Plans to working prototypes and SME walkthroughs.

Contents

Critical Constraints

  • Hard gate: No building may commence without an approved Discovery Plan in exploration/discovery-plans/.
  • Coordinate build cycles without implementing code directly; delegate components to subagent-driven-prototyping.
  • Always record raw walkthrough feedback to exploration/captures/walkthrough-notes.md.

Quick start

  1. Verify approved Discovery Plan exists in exploration/discovery-plans/.
  2. Confirm layout direction with visual-companion in exploration/captures/layout-direction.md.
  3. Dispatch component construction to subagent-driven-prototyping and guide SME walkthrough.

Workflow

  1. Gate Check: Verify plan approval in exploration/discovery-plans/; halt and redirect to planning if unapproved.
  2. Layout Direction: Invoke visual-companion to capture wireframes or layout directions.
  3. Component Build: Invoke subagent-driven-prototyping to assemble parts in exploration/prototype/.
  4. SME Walkthrough: Walk the SME through main user journeys and document observations in exploration/captures/walkthrough-notes.md.
  5. Phase Handoff: Synthesize notes into exploration/captures/prototype-notes.md and report completion.

Verification

  • Confirm exploration/prototype/ contains runnable prototype assets.
  • Validate that walkthrough notes capture all SME feedback and blocker items.
  • Ensure all acceptance criteria from the Discovery Plan are evaluated.

References

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. 17d ago Changed · -77 lines · -47 tokens per session 9193f10c959a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 118 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 783984366026

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prototype-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 438 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.