ui-first-principles

ui-first-principles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. It costs 113 tokens per session (5,788 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A method for deciding which information and actions should appear first in a user interface or information architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze user journeys, prioritize fields, identify interface problems, and report gaps between a UI and its API.
Why use it?
It helps turn an API's available fields into a clearer interface based on user tasks and cognitive principles.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sd0x-dev-flow plugin — 98 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks 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/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/ui-first-principles
Any agent
npx skills add sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill ui-first-principles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sd0x-dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks.

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 ui-first-principles

README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00113 $0.05788
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.02894
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00579

Measured yesterday against content hash a2444ab36361, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ui-first-principles scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

cleanup() { rm -rf "${TMPDIR:-}" 2>/dev/null || true; }
skills/ui-first-principles/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UI First-Principles

Reasoning chain: <scenario> → JTBD → 5 IA/cognitive principles → field decisions → anti-patterns → gap report → validated handoff doc.

Output: handoff-ui-first-principles.md (default <cwd>/handoff-ui-first-principles.md, override with --output). Downstream /frontend-design reads §5 Information Hierarchy directly.

Non-Negotiable Rules

SKILL.md is the normative source. Files under the references/ directory elaborate but do not override.

# Rule Violation =
1 Phase 1 (redact.js) must run before any LLM phase. Raw input never enters Phases 3–6. Skill invalid (PII risk)
2 Phase 7 critical violation (pii_leak_fingerprint / pii_leak_regex / missing_decision) → 1 retry with violation context → still critical → emit ⚠️ Need Human (no warn-only fallback). Retry policy breach
3 Principle Anchor column must hold one ID from JTBD | CognitiveLoadTheory | HicksLaw | MillersLaw | ProgressiveDisclosure. Multi-principle prose is fine in rationale. invalid_anchor soft violation
4 Priority column must hold one of primary | secondary | on_demand | hidden. invalid_priority soft violation
5 Anti-Pattern Pattern column IDs must belong to the v1 whitelist in references/anti-patterns.md. Use literal (none detected) when no anti-patterns apply. invalid_anti_pattern_id soft violation
6 Output must end with ✅ Ready (clean) or ⚠️ Soft warnings (soft only) or ⚠️ Need Human (post-retry critical). Hook + behavior layer parses these. Auto-loop cannot parse

Trigger

  • Keywords: UI first principles, IA design, 資訊架構, 欄位優先級, scenario-driven UI, JTBD UI, anti-pattern audit, ui-first-principles
  • Slash form: /ui-first-principles <scenario>

When NOT to Use

Intent Use instead
Visual layout / colour / Tailwind work /frontend-design
Post-build evaluation of existing UI /critique
Simplifying an already-shipped flow /distill
Pure feasibility on a design idea /feasibility-study
Tech-spec for an IA decision /tech-spec (use this skill's output as input)

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday First seen · 325 lines · 113 tokens per session scan C a2444ab36361

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ui-first-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (188 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 5,788 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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