web-reference-research

web-reference-research is a skill for Codex from TheGoat395/Codex-Skills. It costs 14 tokens per session (341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for studying external website references and converting them into reusable design rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when references such as Squarespace, Framer, Linear, Vercel, or Awwwards should influence a website build.
Why use it?
It turns named examples and visual inspiration into concrete, verifiable decisions instead of copying vague impressions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it when references such as Squarespace, Framer, Linear, Vercel, or Awwwards should influence a website build.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thegoat395/codex-skills/web-reference-research
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 TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill web-reference-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheGoat395/Codex-Skills

Made for: 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.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 341 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 $0.00014 $0.00341
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00034

Measured today against content hash 89df02a62aea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-reference-research 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-reference-record.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.

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/web-reference-research/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Web Reference Research

Purpose

Convert taste references into concrete, verifiable design decisions.

Scoped execution

Apply the shared web contract once when execution crosses phases; reuse it if already read. Load only the specialist guidance relevant to the requested surface and deliverable.

Detailed Guide

Read web reference research guide for the selected workflow. Apply only the requested surface; review-only work reports findings, while authorized changes continue through implementation and relevant verification.

For item-level motion references, also read references/reconstruction-manifest.md and validate the research record with python3 "<skill-root>/scripts/verify-reference-record.py" <record.json>.

Scope and evidence

Resolve source fidelity mode before extraction. Exact authorized/supplied-source work preserves requested details; original work needs an originality delta. Motion-specific phase extraction belongs to $reference-motion-reconstruction. Empty unavailable-evidence is legitimate when nothing is missing.

For helper-driven evidence, use the typed record schema. The helper validates structure only; use actual inspection/test results for claims.

Resolve <skill-root> to this skill folder's actual absolute location; preserve project-local module resolution for Node capture tools.

Optional specialists

reference-motion-reconstruction is optional. Without it, use the bundled reconstruction-manifest guide to record observed phases, trigger, timing, responsive/reduced-motion behavior and missing evidence; do not invent unseen motion.

Files

What ships with it

5 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. today Changed · -4 lines 89df02a62aea
  2. 5d ago Changed · +10 lines · -56 tokens per session 6f319a7d1853
  3. 8d ago First seen · 27 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A df8938fdd032

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-reference-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheGoat395/Codex-Skills (122 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 341 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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