make-a-screen

make-a-screen is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from runvendo/vendo. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,134 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for deciding when an answer should be presented as a reusable screen instead of plain text. It can create screens for comparisons, trends, tables, and actions in a connected product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for dashboards, comparisons, time-based trends, multi-row data, tracking views, and screens with buttons or other actions.
Why use it?
It prevents people from having to read complex or repeat-use information in a long message and gives actions a place to live.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the vendo plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server 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/runvendo/vendo/make-a-screen
Any agent
npx skills add runvendo/vendo --skill make-a-screen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runvendo/vendo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install vendo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,134 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 5.1 $0.00070 $0.01134
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00113

Measured 6d ago against content hash d84c4357cd0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

make-a-screen 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 6d 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.

examples/claude-code-plugin/skills/make-a-screen/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Making the person a screen

The connected product exposes one tool for this: vendo_make. It is the only way to put a screen in front of the person, and you never build UI yourself.

When an answer wants to be looked at

Reach for vendo_make when the honest answer is a shape rather than a sentence:

  • more than a handful of rows — you would be reading a table out loud
  • a comparison, a trend, or a breakdown — anything with an "over time" or "versus" in it
  • something they will come back to — "keep an eye on", "every week", "track"
  • something they need to act on — a screen can carry the buttons; your message cannot

Answer in words instead when the answer is words: one number, one status, one fact, a yes or no, or an explanation. A screen for "what's my balance" is worse than saying the balance.

How to phrase request

request is prose — what you would say to a designer sitting next to you. Say what the person wants, in your own words.

  • Do describe the want: "the last three months of spending, broken down by category, with a way to jump into any month"
  • Don't describe an implementation: no component names, no layout grids, no JSON, no field names you guessed at
  • Don't ask for fonts, colors, or branding — it inherits the product's own
  • Don't bake in data. Never paste numbers you looked up or computed ("Total: $4,210"). The screen binds live data itself, and hardcoded figures are rejected as invented

Pass context for background the product cannot see from its side: what they told you earlier in this conversation, a constraint they mentioned, which of several things they meant. Free text, a couple of sentences.

Pass app only to change one specific existing app you already have the id for. Leaving it out lets the product decide whether to continue the last thing or start something new — which is usually the right call.

Pass slot only when the person names a place in the product and you have that place's exact id — they said it, or an earlier answer carried it. The screen then lands in that spot on their own page instead of their apps list. Slot ids belong to the product, not to you: never invent one. A made-up id puts the screen somewhere nobody is looking, and nothing about that looks like an error. No id, no slot — the default destination is always a safe answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 6d ago First seen · 92 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A d84c4357cd0f

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make-a-screen is a skill published in the GitHub repository runvendo/vendo (604 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,134 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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