recipe-refine-visuals

recipe-refine-visuals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shinpr/nautilus. It costs 32 tokens per session (338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for improving automatically generated visual design tokens, such as colors, text sizes, spacing, corner shapes, and shadows, in a project’s brand-direction document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a designer wants to review or refine colors, typography, spacing, radius, or shadow values after an initial visual-token set has been generated.
Why use it?
It provides a structured review for accessibility, consistent sizing and spacing, and alignment with the product’s users and design goals.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when a designer wants to review or refine colors, typography, spacing, radius, or shadow values after an initial visual-token set has been generated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/nautilus/recipe-refine-visuals
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shinpr/nautilus --skill recipe-refine-visuals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/nautilus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 338 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 $0.00032 $0.00338
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 5d ago against content hash 61ccfbb0d948, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-refine-visuals 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 5d 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.

.agents/skills/recipe-refine-visuals/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Context: Refine the Visual Tokens in docs/product/design/brand-direction.md after recipe-blueprint has created an initial set.

This side workflow applies when a human with design judgment explicitly requests refinement of the auto-derived token set.

Required Skills [LOAD BEFORE EXECUTION]

  1. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] blueprint-standards — brand-direction template and Visual Token structure
  2. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] design-perspective — accessibility and persona-aware design review

Workflow

  1. Read docs/product/design/brand-direction.md
  2. Review current Visual Tokens against design principles, personas, and prototype learnings
  3. Verify:
    • text-on-surface contrast ratio is at least 4.5:1 for normal text
    • heading text is at least 1.25x the body size in the primary hierarchy step
    • spacing tokens form a consistent increasing scale without reversals
  4. Apply exact overrides supplied by the user and mark the source as expert-refined
  5. When the request requires a new design choice, present only that choice and its rationale; update the file after the user confirms it

Scope Boundaries

Included: colors, typography, spacing, radius, shadow values Not included: redesigning the entire blueprint or introducing implementation-specific component APIs

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. 5d ago Changed · +2 lines 61ccfbb0d948
  2. 10d ago First seen · 31 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 68f595a0262f

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recipe-refine-visuals is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/nautilus (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 338 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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