vellum-editorial

vellum-editorial is a skill for Claude Code from tdimino/claude-code-minoan. It costs 156 tokens per session (2,650 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design system for building editorial documentation websites with static HTML. It provides warm parchment and dark space themes, defined typography, colors, textures, and reusable content-focused page components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create documentation, archives, research-style pages, and other text-heavy websites with a consistent editorial appearance.
Why use it?
It removes the need to invent the visual language and documentation layout for each editorial site. The generated pages can be deployed to common static hosting services without a build system.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to create documentation, archives, research-style pages, and other text-heavy websites with a consistent editorial appearance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/vellum-editorial
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 vellum-editorial
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoan

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,650 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00156 $0.02650
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01325
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00530
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00265

Measured 8d ago against content hash 20af9be35262, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vellum-editorial scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (assets/_audio-player.js, assets/_auth.js, scripts/init_project.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sI https://<project-name>.pages.dev/ | grep -iE 'x-robots|x-frame|content-security'
skills/design-media/vellum-editorial/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build editorial documentation sites with the Vellum design system. Two theme variants (warm parchment, dark space), OKLCH color science, three-font typographic hierarchy, 35 semantic components. Static HTML with zero build step — deploys to Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, or any static host.

Creative Direction

Two theme variants, each with a distinct character:

Warm (default): "Vellum manuscript" — warm cream backgrounds with a subtle SVG crosshatch texture, deep ink-brown text, copper accents. Authoritative, like a well-made journal.

Dark: "Space archive" — deep blue-black backgrounds with CSS starfield (box-shadow stars + nebula gradients), bright gold copper accents, cool blue-gray text. Atmospheric, like a command center or digital archaeology site.

Both themes share the same typography, component library, and layout system. The palette transformation is purely in :root custom properties — no structural CSS changes needed.

If the minoan-frontend-design skill is available, read it for broader aesthetic principles. Vellum encodes those principles into a concrete design system. Pages built with Vellum should score 16+/20 on /design-audit and 28+/40 on /design-critique.

Quick Start

Scaffold a new project:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/vellum-editorial/scripts/init_project.py <project-name> \
  [--style editorial|instrument] [--template landing|one-pager] \
  [--pages N] [--theme warm|dark] [--auth] [--no-auth] \
  [--password <string>] [--deploy-ready] [--no-deploy-ready] \
  [--audio] [--no-audio]

This generates a deploy-ready site with CSS, starter HTML, OG/Twitter social meta tags, a light/dark theme toggle, and optionally a client-side auth gate and ambient audio player. By default, --deploy-ready generates _headers (CF Pages security headers) and robots.txt (crawl prevention). The --theme dark flag transforms the palette to a dark space aesthetic with CSS starfield background. Open index.html in a browser — fonts load from Google Fonts, icons from Phosphor Icons CDN.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 8d ago First seen · 172 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 20af9be35262

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vellum-editorial is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 2,650 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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