design-newsletter-header

design-newsletter-header is a skill for Claude Code from slogsdon/skills-design. It costs 117 tokens per session (2,020 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating a small branded header image for an email newsletter. It outputs a 600×200 HTML canvas designed to be captured as an image and placed in an email.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a newsletter title, issue number, date, or short tagline.
Why use it?
It gives newsletter issues a consistent visual header without relying on email clients to support complex page styling.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is test -f ./design/<brand-slug>/tokens.css.

Part of the skills-design plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for a newsletter title, issue number, date, or short tagline.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slogsdon/skills-design
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/slogsdon/skills-design/design-newsletter-header

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,020 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 $0.00117 $0.02020
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01010
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00202

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0ea3319353d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-newsletter-header 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 12d 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/design-newsletter-header/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: newsletter-header

Produces a 600×200 pixel-exact HTML canvas for use as a newsletter email header. The canvas is small — typography choices must be ruthless. Display sizes top out around 36–48px; meta around 11–14px. The artifact is meant to be screenshot to PNG and embedded as <img> in the email — the email client never sees raw HTML, so font and CSS quirks don't matter for delivery.

When to use

  • User publishes a newsletter and needs a branded header banner image
  • A DESIGN.md exists for the brand

Inputs

  • Required: brand slug, newsletter title or issue identifier (e.g. "Working notes — May 2026")
  • Optional: issue number, dateline, tagline (max 6 words)

Output

./design/<brand-slug>/artifacts/newsletter-header-YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.html

Steps

1. Verify brand exists

test -f ./design/<brand-slug>/tokens.css

If missing, stop and tell the user to run /design-system <brand-slug> first.

2. Gather the brief

Ask in one message:

1. Header text — the masthead string (max 6 words)
2. Optional issue number / dateline (e.g. "Issue 003 · 2026.05.02")
3. Optional tagline / subtitle (max 6 words)

If the user gives 8+ words, push back: "600×200 won't hold that legibly. Cut to the masthead + meta." Don't proceed until they agree.

3. Pick variation — ARCHITECTURE FIRST

Pick ONE. Newsletter headers favor restraint — pick the simplest archetype that carries the brand register:

  • chrome-led — masthead title + meta strip (issue / date). The classic newsletter header pattern; brand-earned for editorial titles.
  • type-only — title alone at maximum scale; no meta at all.
  • inverse-text — full canvas dark inversion (canonical v2 feature treatment) — masthead in cream on ink.
  • object-of-content — looks like a printed masthead from a magazine/quarterly cover.

Then pick:

  • Layout: symmetric | asymmetric | full-bleed | split
  • Color usage: monochrome | single-accent | inverted

Cross-artifact rule: vary from the brand's most recent header (issue 002 vs issue 003 should not be visually identical).

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 164 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 0ea3319353d1

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design-newsletter-header is a skill published in the GitHub repository slogsdon/skills-design (3 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 2,020 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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