fudge-design-research

fudge-design-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from scroobius-pip/fudge-mcp. It costs 52 tokens per session (632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-research skill that searches a library of captured websites and records their visual details. It can help inspect layouts, fonts, colours, components, and design directions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding comparable websites, studying a named page, comparing design approaches, and applying observed design evidence while coding.
Why use it?
It gives developers concrete visual references when planning or reviewing a website instead of relying only on vague inspiration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Finding comparable websites, studying a named page, comparing design approaches, and applying observed design evidence while coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/scroobius-pip/fudge-mcp/fudge-design-research
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 scroobius-pip/fudge-mcp --skill fudge-design-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scroobius-pip/fudge-mcp

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.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 632 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00052 $0.00632
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00253
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ca15615b0549, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fudge-design-research 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 1mo 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.

skills/fudge-design-research/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fudge Design Research

Use Fudge as a searchable library of captured websites and their design details.

Start with the live guide

When the connected Fudge MCP server exposes fudge://agent/guide.md, read it before the first Fudge query in a task. The guide describes the current query contract and available evidence. Do not guess a relation, field, or taxonomy label that the guide does not establish.

Choose the right workflow

Find references

For inspiration, critique, or an open-ended design direction:

  1. Search two or more meaningfully different angles from the request, such as page purpose, layout, component, typography, or visual treatment.
  2. Pool and deduplicate repeated pages and domains.
  3. Inspect the strongest available screenshots before describing visible traits.
  4. Present a small set of genuinely different references and explain what each contributes.

Do not treat one result list as a complete answer when the request is exploratory.

Inspect a website

For a named website or saved page, retrieve evidence for the exact page or domain. Answer with the captured details that matter to the request, such as typography, color roles, spacing, layout, components, borders, shadows, gradients, media, or page context.

Make it clear when evidence comes from a saved capture rather than the current live website. Do not fill missing details with assumptions.

Compare or recommend

Keep hard facts separate from recommendations. Use captured evidence to explain why references differ, then make a recommendation tied to the user's stated goal. Similarity is useful for ranking candidates, not for proving that two designs or fonts are identical.

Review a design

When the user asks for design feedback, search for relevant references before giving substantial advice unless they explicitly want an attachment-only review. Connect each recommendation to a visible problem and a useful example.

Present the result

  • Show visual results when the MCP response provides screenshots, pin cards, font previews, palettes, or other rendered evidence.
  • Keep the explanation close to the evidence it describes.
  • Prefer direct language such as "Fudge found", "the capture uses", and "this reference shows".
  • State missing, stale, or unavailable evidence plainly.
  • Do not expose internal schema names or retrieval mechanics in ordinary user-facing answers.
  • Do not infer font licensing from captured usage or visual similarity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A ca15615b0549

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fudge-design-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository scroobius-pip/fudge-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 632 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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