building-ai-websites-that-dont-look-ai

building-ai-websites-that-dont-look-ai is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from S3YED/appie-kit. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,231 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for building AI-assisted websites that feel intentional and brand-specific rather than generic. It combines a real brand’s visual rules with a page structure suited to the business.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract colors, typography, spacing, and other design rules, then apply them to polished multi-page React or Next.js websites.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common problems such as flat layouts, inconsistent spacing, missing hover states, and pages that look unfinished or interchangeable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to extract colors, typography, spacing, and other design rules, then apply them to polished multi-page React or Next.js websites.

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npx skills add S3YED/appie-kit --skill building-ai-websites-that-dont-look-ai
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S3YED/appie-kit

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,231 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.01231
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00123

Measured 9d ago against content hash 37ef015a27b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-ai-websites-that-dont-look-ai 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 9d ago.

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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.

skills/content/building-ai-websites-that-dont-look-ai/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

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Building AI Websites That Don't Look AI-Generated

Distilled from a 67-min masterclass (YT 2Gda_ZvV1V4, transcript at ~/clawd/knowledge/webdesign-video-2Gda_ZvV1V4/transcript.txt). Core thesis: AI sites look like slop because people start from a blank canvas. Fix: extract a real brand's design system first, merge it with a proven layout structure, then layer design fundamentals on top.

The key insight

Separate brand from structure — they come from different sources:

  • Brand kit (colors/type/radii/shadows): extract from a reference site's screenshots or a pre-built kit (Get Design has 71 brand kits as design.md)
  • Page structure: a Dribbble screenshot that fits the BUSINESS TYPE (don't copy Stripe's software-company layout for a service business)
  • Merge both in Claude Design: brand system + structure screenshot → hi-fi multi-page prototype → hand off to Claude Code ("copy it pixel for pixel", Next.js + Tailwind)

Workflow (17 steps, condensed)

  1. Pick style reference (screenshots) + structure reference (Dribbble: search "[niche] website")
  2. Claude Design > Design Systems > upload screenshots or design.md > publish
  3. Generate hi-fi prototype: name the pages, "use the brand design system for branding, use the attached screenshot for page structure"
  4. Hand off to Claude Code; CLAUDE.md persona: "You are a senior UI designer and front end developer. You build premium, modern, elegant interfaces."
  5. Layout: 6 decisions = direction, column ratio (60/40, 70/30 beats equal), container width, section rhythm, padding, alignment. Generous padding, applied consistently to ALL sections
  6. Typography: 3 distinct font families (heading dark/bold/large, body lighter, caption in accent color); gradient on key heading words; roomy line-height
  7. Imagery: Pixabay (royalty-free) + Freepik illustrations + Lucide icons. Never leave placeholders
  8. "Expensive" backgrounds = LAYERS: solid + radial gradient + subtle noise/dot texture + grid + color blobs + frosted glass. "People won't see the noise, but it fills out the page"
  9. Shadows = elevation (3D leap off the page); border radius identical everywhere (from the kit)
  10. Hover/focus states with 300ms transitions (never instant): buttons scale +10% + shadow, nav links get left-to-right underline, inputs get ring + ring offset, cards lift
  11. Nav: sticky + frosted glass; mobile hamburger with slide-out
  12. Dark/light toggle (optionally default by user timezone)
  13. Motion: scroll-triggered pop-ins with STAGGERED delays (never simultaneous), logo marquee, count-up numbers, shimmer, floating elements. Prompt lever: "10x the amount of animations on this page", then dial back to taste
  14. 3D hero: remix a Spline community scene, transparent bg, brand colors, export embed (caveat: ~5MB, hurts page speed)
  15. AI video: Higgs Field MCP (http://mcp.higgsfield.ai, Seedance 2.0) — video bg also costs load speed
  16. Responsive: "optimize for desktop, tablet and mobile" + verify in DevTools device emulation. Mobile first: 70% of traffic
  17. Deploy: push to GitHub (private) > Vercel import > custom domain

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 63 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 37ef015a27b9

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building-ai-websites-that-dont-look-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository S3YED/appie-kit (9 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,231 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 2026-09-03.

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