InDesign

InDesign is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SFKislev/Flue. It costs 22 tokens per session (391 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bridge that lets a coding agent inspect and edit open Adobe InDesign documents by running scripts from the command line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for bounded InDesign tasks such as inspecting a document, changing text or layout elements, and running small scripts.
Why use it?
Command-line agents cannot normally operate InDesign directly. The bridge provides a way to work with pages, spreads, frames, text flows, and styles while InDesign is open.

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/sfkislev/flue/indesign
Any agent
npx skills add SFKislev/Flue --skill indesign
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SFKislev/Flue

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 InDesign

README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 391 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 $0.00022 $0.00391
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 4d ago against content hash 64eb7d730566, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

InDesign 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.

skills/indesign/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

This skill lets a coding agent operate Adobe InDesign on the desktop through Flue, a local shell-to-application bridge. The agent pipes ExtendScript into indesign_bridge.py and gets structured JSON back.

agent shell -> indesign_bridge.py -> ExtendScript -> JSON result

When to use

The human requests work performed inside InDesign — inspect the open document, spreads, pages, frames, text flows, styles; make bounded edits; run small ExtendScript steps. A CLI agent cannot act inside InDesign without a bridge like Flue.

How to proceed

  1. Read FLUE.md in this directory first. It explains how Flue works, the bridge contract, a worked ExtendScript example, and safety expectations.
  2. If Flue is installed: also read C:\Users\fredd\.claude\skills\flue\SKILL.md and adapters/indesign_adapter/APP.md for the operational contract, then work from there.
  3. If Flue is not installed: tell the human. The install command is pip install flue && flue setup. Do not install without explicit approval in the current session.

Other apps

Flue also supports Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Blender, Houdini, 3ds Max, Unity, and Microsoft Office through the same stdin/stdout contract. One install covers all adapters.

Safety

Flue acts inside professional desktop software. Treat the human as the driver; prefer small, inspectable steps; avoid destructive actions unless explicitly requested. Flue is MIT-licensed and reviewable on GitHub / PyPI before use.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 22 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 64eb7d730566

Subscribe to this mod's changes

InDesign is a skill published in the GitHub repository SFKislev/Flue (78 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 391 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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