semantic-html

semantic-html is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from schalkneethling/webdev-agent-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (5,518 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing HTML whose elements describe their meaning, such as headings, forms, tables, and navigation. It also covers document structure, labels, keyboard-friendly interaction, and content that changes length.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing components, page layouts, forms, tables, headings, and interactive controls.
Why use it?
It helps pages work better for assistive technologies and remain usable with real-world content, languages, and screen sizes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/schalkneethling/webdev-agent-skills/semantic-html
Any agent
npx skills add schalkneethling/webdev-agent-skills --skill semantic-html
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/schalkneethling/webdev-agent-skills

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.

agentmods badge for semantic-html

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/schalkneethling/webdev-agent-skills/semantic-html"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/schalkneethling/webdev-agent-skills/semantic-html.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,518 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 $0.00051 $0.05518
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.02759
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00552

Measured 4d ago against content hash eee564149cdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

semantic-html 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.

semantic-html/SKILL.md · 604 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 604 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Semantic HTML

Write HTML that conveys meaning, serves all users, and respects the web platform.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating new components or page sections
  • Reviewing markup for accessibility and semantics
  • Deciding between native HTML elements and ARIA attributes
  • Structuring documents with proper heading hierarchy
  • Making interactive elements accessible
  • Building forms with proper labelling and error handling
  • Creating responsive tables

Core Principles

Content Realism

Design content is idealized. Real content is messy. Always account for:

  • Long sentences and long words
  • Images with varying aspect ratios and sizes
  • Multi-language support (even if not planned—users can translate via browser)
  • Dynamic content that changes in length and structure

Build components that handle real-world content gracefully, not just what looks good in design tools.

Landmarks-First Planning

Before diving into individual components, consider the full page structure. This allows you to:

  • Identify key landmarks for assistive technology users
  • Plan heading hierarchy across the document
  • Make informed decisions about element choice
  • Avoid overusing landmarks (which diminishes their usefulness)

Native Over ARIA

Follow the first rule of ARIA: if a native HTML element provides the semantics and behaviour you need, use it instead of adding ARIA to a generic element.

Red flag: High div count combined with high ARIA count on non-complex components signals reaching for patches rather than foundations.

Redundant ARIA

Adding ARIA to elements that already carry the correct semantics is noise—it clutters the code, can confuse assistive technology, and obscures genuine intent:

<!-- Redundant: <ul> already has list semantics -->
<ul role="list">
  ...
</ul>

<!-- Redundant: alt="" already suppresses the accessible name -->
<img src="avatar.png" alt="" role="presentation" />

<!-- Redundant: aria-label duplicates visible text the AT will already read -->
<span aria-label="Most Popular">Most Popular</span>

Read the full file on GitHub · 604 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 604 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A eee564149cdd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

semantic-html is a skill published in the GitHub repository schalkneethling/webdev-agent-skills (7 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 5,518 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 2026-08-31.

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