layout-debug

A troubleshooting guide for Flutter layout problems such as content overflowing, missing size constraints, scrolling failures, and screens that do not adapt to different device sizes. Flutter is a framework for building apps from one shared codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fix clipped text, overflow warnings, unbounded-width or unbounded-height errors, broken scrolling, disappearing widgets, and mobile, tablet, or desktop layout issues.
Why use it?
It connects common error messages with likely layout causes and suggests fixes that fit the project's existing structure, theme, language support, and shared widgets.

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/strvcom/flutter-template/layout-debug
Any agent
npx skills add strvcom/flutter-template --skill layout-debug
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/strvcom/flutter-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,119 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 $0.00070 $0.01119
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash 24ede8e3e399, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

layout-debug 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 2d 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/layout-debug/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flutter Template Layout Debug

Use this skill for UI fixes and responsive layout work in this Flutter template.

Read First

  • AGENTS.md
  • docs/PROJECT_OVERVIEW.md
  • docs/PROJECT_GUIDELINES.md
  • The affected *_page.dart and *_page_content.dart
  • Shared widgets in lib/common/component/ or lib/common/composition/ used by the screen

Error Signatures

Map console/stack-trace error strings directly to fixes before broader diagnosis:

  • "Vertical viewport was given unbounded height" — a scrollable (ListView, GridView) sits inside an unconstrained vertical parent (usually a Column). Wrap the scrollable in Expanded, or give it an explicit height via SizedBox/ConstrainedBox.
  • "An InputDecorator...cannot have an unbounded width" — a TextField/TextFormField sits inside an unconstrained horizontal parent (usually a Row). Wrap it in Expanded or Flexible.
  • "RenderFlex overflowed by N pixels" — a Row/Column child requests more space than the parent allows (yellow/black stripes). Wrap the overflowing child in Expanded or Flexible, or let text wrap.
  • "Incorrect use of ParentData widget"Expanded/Flexible is not a direct child of a Row/Column/Flex, or Positioned is not a direct child of a Stack. Move it so it is.
  • "RenderBox was not laid out" — cascading side effect, not the root cause. Ignore it and look further up the output for the primary constraint violation above.

Diagnosis Checklist

  1. Reproduce or identify the failing viewport, text scale, platform, and state.
  2. Inspect the nearest Row, Column, Stack, ListView, SingleChildScrollView, Expanded, Flexible, and fixed-size widget.
  3. Find whether the problem is:
    • missing constraints
    • conflicting constraints
    • unbounded scrollable content
    • fixed dimensions where content is dynamic
    • text that cannot wrap or scale within its parent
    • a Stack or overlay that visually collides with later content
  4. Fix the closest layout cause instead of papering over the symptom with arbitrary sizes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 2d ago First seen · 95 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 24ede8e3e399

Subscribe to this mod's changes

layout-debug is a skill published in the GitHub repository strvcom/flutter-template (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,119 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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