What is dryui-build-experiment-b?

An experimental workflow for building DryUI interfaces with required planning and review checkpoints. It is designed to test whether explicit layout gates improve the reliability of generated Svelte interfaces.

Use it when experimenting with Svelte and DryUI pages, sections, components, forms, or dashboards that need a written layout contract and required states.

It catches layout decisions that violate the project’s rules before implementation continues, reducing inconsistent page structure and responsive behaviour.

dryui-build-experiment-b — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by rob-balf

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 variant-b-gated-workflow

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rob-balfre/dryui

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 660 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00034	$0.00660
Opus 5	$0.00017	$0.00330
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00132
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00066

Measured 10d ago against content hash 06bd5bd2d174, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dryui-build-experiment-b 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.

reports/skill-experiments/2026-05-11/variant-b-gated-workflow/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DryUI Build Experiment B: Gated Workflow

Gate 1: Target Brief

Write this before implementation:

Target brief: type=<page|section|component|form|polish>, subtype=<dashboard|marketing|docs|settings|other>, user=<role>, primary_task=<task>, density=<compact|standard|spacious>, required_states=<states>.

If type=page, continue to Gate 2. If subtype=dashboard, apply the dashboard add-on in Gate 3.

Gate 2: Page Layout Contract

For any full page:

One page root owns data-layout="<name>".
That root creates container: <name> / inline-size.
Every structural child gets data-layout-area.
src/layout.css owns page and section structure.
Route/component <style> blocks do not contain display: grid, display: flex, layout breakpoints, inline style, or Svelte style:.
Responsive structure uses @container <name> only.
Base layout is mobile-first.
src/layout.css contains structure only: display, grid/flex, container, gap, alignment, spacing, and block-size constraints.

Stop and fix the plan if any bullet cannot be satisfied.

Gate 3: Dashboard Add-On

For dashboard/data pages:

Primary task is one of monitor, compare, triage, report, configure, or act.
Metrics are grouped by meaning, not decoration.
The largest region belongs to the most important data view.
Filters/actions sit before the data they affect.
A table uses Table or DataGrid; a chart uses Chart or Sparkline.
Cards are allowed for KPIs, alerts, and distinct comparison units; cards are not allowed as page scaffolding.
Dense data must not depend on hover-only controls.
Include loading, empty, error, and dense-data states.

Gate 4: Markup Draft

Draft markup in this order:

Page root.
Semantic regions.
DryUI components.
Raw structural elements with data-layout or data-layout-area.
State branches.

Avoid generic names: wrapper, container, box, layout, inner, outer.

Gate 5: Layout CSS Draft

Draft src/layout.css in this order:

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

output.md 9.3 KB

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.

10d ago First seen · 79 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 06bd5bd2d174

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dryui-build-experiment-b is a skill published in the GitHub repository rob-balfre/dryui (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 660 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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