dryui-build

dryui-build is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rob-balfre/dryui. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,777 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of dryui-build, MIT.

A skill for extracting only the abstract shell of a page from a design image as colored blocks. The shell is the page framework around the main content, such as navigation, rails, and utility areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify full pages or sections, plan mobile, tablet, and desktop regions, and test the dominant content area and its supporting panels.
Why use it?
It provides a simple structural checkpoint before anyone spends time recreating detailed interface elements or business data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to classify full pages or sections, plan mobile, tablet, and desktop regions, and test the dominant content area and its supporting panels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rob-balfre/dryui/v9-abstract-blocks
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 rob-balfre/dryui --skill v9-abstract-blocks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rob-balfre/dryui

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,777 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.01777
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00889
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00178

Measured 10d ago against content hash ce475cecabff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dryui-build 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to dryui-build — 26 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

reports/skill-experiments/2026-05-11/batch-7/v9-abstract-blocks/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DryUI Layout Blocks: Abstract Shell

Build only an abstract colored block layout skeleton. This is a layout extraction stage, not a UI implementation.

Only edit:

  • src/routes/+page.svelte
  • src/layout.css

Do not import anything. Do not use DryUI components, Lucide, icons, SVGs, images, charts, tables, forms, buttons, inputs, avatars, realistic widgets, copied text, copied metrics, copied dates, copied names, or generated business data.

1. Classify The Task

  • Full page: build a page shell with topbar/navigation, primary, and optional secondary, utility, rail, summary, actions.
  • Page section: build a section shell with primary and optional adjacent regions.

For full-page design-image references, treat the whole image as the page shell.

2. Blueprint Before Coding

Write the region plan mentally before editing:

  • Mobile: one-column top-to-bottom order.
  • Tablet: first useful two-pane/grouped composition.
  • Desktop: persistent rail/sidebar, right panels, attached panes, dominant work surface.

Decide:

  • Which region is primary.
  • Whether spacing is contiguous, guttered, or mixed.
  • Which regions are secondary or utility, so they do not become larger than primary.
  • Which visible bands are shell regions versus nested primitives.

3. Use Recipes Only For Proportions

Do not change required area names for a recipe.

  • Dashboard: summary strip, primary chart/workspace, insights/activity.
  • Board/Kanban: board is primary; task detail is secondary; activity is utility; desktop rail if present.
  • CRM: table/pipeline is primary; account/detail is secondary; forecast/activity are utility.
  • Settings/Admin: settings/profile/form stack is primary; help/status/activity are secondary/utility; compact actions; desktop rail if present.
  • Knowledge/Document Reader: reader is primary; collections/list are navigation/secondary; AI summary is secondary/utility; reader must be largest at desktop.

4. Markup Contract

For a full page, use this direct-child shape:

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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 · 164 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A ce475cecabff

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dryui-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository rob-balfre/dryui (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,777 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to dryui-build, differing in 26 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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