visual-companion

visual-companion is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide that presents plain-language layout choices before a prototype is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding how an interface, dashboard, or other prototype should be arranged and presented.
Why use it?
It helps agree on the visual structure and direction early, before construction begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it when deciding how an interface, dashboard, or other prototype should be arranged and presented.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/visual-companion
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 visual-companion
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 visual-companion

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/visual-companion.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/visual-companion)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/visual-companion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/visual-companion.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,605 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 $0.00072 $0.01605
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00803
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00161

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0185ce60a951, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-companion 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 4d 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/visual-companion/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dashboard Intercept

Before doing anything else, silently check for exploration/exploration-dashboard.md.

  • If the file EXISTS:
    • Read the file and check the status. If status is Complete, proceed standalone.
    • If status is In Progress or TBD:
      • Check for the presence of the <ORCHESTRATOR_DISPATCH> tag in the immediate context.
      • If the tag is PRESENT:
        • Extract and verify the authorized_skill, phase_number, and expected_output attributes from the <ORCHESTRATOR_DISPATCH> tag.
        • If authorized_skill matches "visual-companion" AND phase_number matches the dashboard phase:
          • Proceed with this skill's logic. (You are authorized by the orchestrator).
          • Note: The orchestrator manages dispatch token lifecycle. This tag is valid for the current phase only — it becomes stale once the orchestrator advances the dashboard in Block 6.
        • If verification fails (mismatched name or stale phase):
          • Stop immediately. Announce: "Orchestrator dispatch verification failed. Returning to dashboard."
          • Return control. Invoke skill: exploration-workflow. Stop generating output.
      • If the tag is ABSENT or malformed:
        • Stop immediately. Do not continue.
        • Announce: "It looks like you have an active Exploration Session. Let me take you back to your session dashboard."
        • Return control to the orchestrator. Invoke skill: exploration-workflow. Stop generating output from this skill.
  • If the file DOES NOT exist: Proceed standalone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 4d ago First seen · 127 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 0185ce60a951

Subscribe to this mod's changes

visual-companion is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,605 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.

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