prototype

prototype is a skill for Claude Code from vivekkachhadiyatech/skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (467 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for choosing the simplest type of prototype that can answer a design question, from a paper sketch to a coded interface. A prototype is an early version used to test an idea before building the final product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to make a paper, wireframe, visual, or coded prototype. It helps define the screens, flows, decisions, and results to test.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from spending time building a detailed prototype when a rough sketch would answer the question. It also makes clear what the prototype should test and what success would look like.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the prototyping-testing plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when deciding whether to make a paper, wireframe, visual, or coded prototype. It helps define the screens, flows, decisions, and results to test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vivekkachhadiyatech/skills/prototype
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 vivekkachhadiyatech/skills --skill prototype
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vivekkachhadiyatech/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prototyping-testing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 467 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.
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 $0.00052 $0.00467
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00187
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00047

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2f54e7f40b01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prototype 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 2mo 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.

plugins/design/prototyping-testing/skills/prototype/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Read ../knowledge/testing-methods.md § Prototyping fidelity ladder before producing output.

Step 1 — Identify the question

Determine what design question the prototype must answer:

  • Concept / flow validity → paper
  • IA / navigation → wireframe
  • Visual design / motion → hi-fi
  • Interaction edge cases / real data / handoff → coded

If the question is ambiguous, ask: "What specific design question does this prototype need to answer?"

Step 2 — Select fidelity

Apply the fidelity ladder. Pick the lowest rung that answers the question. State the chosen fidelity and why.

Check for mismatch signals (listed in testing-methods.md) and flag if the requester has pre-selected a fidelity that is higher or lower than the question warrants.

Step 3 — Produce the artifact brief

For the selected fidelity, produce a brief that contains:

Field Content
Fidelity paper / wireframe / hi-fi / coded
Question answered One sentence
Scope Screens or flows included
Out of scope What is explicitly excluded
Key decisions to test 2–4 specific hypotheses or design decisions
Success signal How you'll know the prototype answered the question

For paper: produce a screen-by-screen sketch description (words only — describe layout, key elements, and user actions).

For wireframe: produce annotated wireframe descriptions: element, purpose, and interaction note per screen.

For hi-fi: produce a component and token list, interaction spec, and motion notes (if any).

For coded: produce an implementation checklist: components to build, data fixtures needed, edge cases to exercise, acceptance criteria.

Step 4 — State the next rung

End with one line: "Next rung: [fidelity] — when [condition that would justify upgrading]."

If already at coded, state: "No higher rung — verify with verify skill on the live URL."

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. 2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 2f54e7f40b01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prototype is a skill published in the GitHub repository vivekkachhadiyatech/skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 467 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 2026-08-31.

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