favicon

favicon is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. It costs 39 tokens per session (691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for configuring a website favicon, the small icon shown in browser tabs and bookmarks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit favicon markup or set up favicon files for a new project.
Why use it?
It helps prevent missing or incorrectly referenced tab icons across a site.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to audit favicon markup or set up favicon files for a new project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/favicon
About the project

Front-End Checklist is a collection of front-end web development rules organized as a practical review and quality workflow for people and AI agents. Developers use it to audit projects and pull requests, check implementation details, and find guidance for remediation and verification. The catalogue entries provide skills, instructions, MCP tools, and a plugin for using the checklist in agent workflows.

thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist · 74,577 stars · on GitHub · frontendchecklist.io

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 thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill favicon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for favicon

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/favicon/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/favicon)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/favicon"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/favicon/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for favicon

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/favicon"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/favicon.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 691 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 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 $0.00039 $0.00691
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 23d ago against content hash 5604c2cefafd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

favicon 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 23d 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/favicon/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add a favicon to every page

Google displays favicons next to search results on mobile devices, making your brand immediately recognisable in the SERP. A missing or inaccessible favicon prevents Google from showing it, reducing visual brand presence in search.

Quick Reference

  • Provide a <link rel="icon"> pointing to a favicon file; Google uses it to identify your site in search results
  • Serve the favicon via HTTPS, ensure it is publicly accessible (not blocked by robots.txt), and at least 48×48px for Google's use
  • Include both an ICO fallback and SVG/PNG versions for broad browser and device compatibility

Check

In the page <head>, look for <link rel="icon"> or <link rel="shortcut icon"> elements. Verify: (1) The href points to an accessible URL (returns 200, not blocked by robots.txt). (2) The file is at least 48×48px (for Google Search use). (3) A PNG or SVG version is provided alongside the ICO fallback. (4) The favicon is accessible over HTTPS.

Fix

  1. Create favicon files:
    • favicon.ico (16×16 and 32×32, ICO format) — legacy browser fallback
    • favicon.svg (scalable, modern browsers)
    • apple-touch-icon.png (180×180 PNG) — iOS home screen
  2. Place them in the root or /public directory.
  3. Add to <head>:
    <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="any">
    <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">
    
  4. Verify the favicon URL returns a 200 response (not 404).
  5. Check that /robots.txt does not block the favicon path.
  6. Test Google's display using the URL Inspection tool in Search Console.

Explain

Favicons appear next to your site's name in browser tabs, bookmarks, and Google Search mobile results. Google explicitly states it uses the favicon from <link rel='icon'> for display in search results. A missing, blocked, or too-small favicon means Google cannot show your brand icon, reducing search result click-through rate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 23d ago Changed 5604c2cefafd
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9bb5feff48ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

favicon is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist (74,577 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 691 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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