shape

shape is a skill for Claude Code from tdimino/claude-code-minoan. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for deciding how a feature should look and work before code is written. It interviews you about the feature and produces a design brief that records the intended user experience and interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a feature’s user flow, visual direction, constraints, and implementation guidance before development begins.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork and prevents implementation from starting before the problem, constraints, and design direction are understood. It keeps design decisions in a reusable document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to plan a feature’s user flow, visual direction, constraints, and implementation guidance before development begins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/shape
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.

Any agent
npx skills add tdimino/claude-code-minoan --skill shape
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoan

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 13
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 45
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00070 $0.01625
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00162

Measured 8d ago against content hash 47624e1440c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shape 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 8d 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-media/shape/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shape the UX and UI for a feature before any code is written. This skill produces a design brief — a structured artifact that guides implementation through discovery, not guesswork.

Scope: Design planning only. This skill produces design briefs, not code.

Preparation

Read ~/.claude/skills/minoan-frontend-design/SKILL.md for aesthetic principles and anti-pattern guidance. These inform the design direction but should not constrain the discovery interview.

Check for existing design context: .design-context.md in the project root, or a ## Design Context section in CLAUDE.md. If either exists, use it as a starting point — don't re-ask questions it already answers.

Phase 1: Discovery Interview

Do NOT make any design decisions during this phase. Understand the feature deeply enough to make excellent decisions later.

Interview cadence

Ask 2-3 questions per round, then wait for answers. One round is the default. Add a second only if the first answers leave material gaps — don't run a second round just to feel thorough.

Assert-then-confirm, not menu-with-escape. When the user's prompt and existing context make one option obvious, name it and ask the user to confirm or override. "This reads as Restrained, confirm?" beats a four-option menu when the answer is already clear.

Ask these questions conversationally — adapt based on answers, don't dump them all at once:

Purpose & Context

  • What is this feature for? What problem does it solve?
  • Who specifically will use it? (Role, context, frequency — not just "users")
  • What does success look like? How will you know this feature is working?
  • What's the user's state of mind when they reach this? (Rushed? Exploring? Anxious?)

Content & Data

  • What content or data does this feature display or collect?
  • What are the realistic ranges? (Minimum, typical, maximum — e.g., 0 items, 5 items, 500 items)
  • What are the edge cases? (Empty state, error state, first-time use, power user)

Design Direction

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 122 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 47624e1440c3

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shape is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,625 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 2026-09-03.

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