beautify

beautify is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to improving the visual design of web apps, including layout, spacing, colors, typography, and visual hierarchy. It focuses on making interfaces feel deliberately designed rather than like generic templates.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps redesign app screens, improve readability and composition, choose restrained visual styles, and fix common patterns that make interfaces look machine-generated.
Why use it?
It gives a practical way to diagnose screens that feel cluttered, flat, or inconsistent. The guidance helps decide what to emphasize, group, simplify, or remove.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit It helps redesign app screens, improve readability and composition, choose restrained visual styles, and fix common patterns that make interfaces look machine-generated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/beautify
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill beautify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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 beautify

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/beautify/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/beautify)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/beautify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/beautify/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 beautify

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,511 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 $0.00055 $0.02511
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01256
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00251

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1d13faa9ecaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beautify 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 12d 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/beautify/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Beautify

Make web apps look intentionally designed rather than AI-generated. This skill covers the visual principles that separate premium-feeling apps (Stripe, Linear, Vercel) from generic template output. Apply these principles when building new UI or when the user says something "looks off" but can't articulate why.

Reference AI-SLOP-FIXES.md for specific antipattern remediation. Reference REFERENCE-TEARDOWNS.md for concrete examples from production apps.


Core Principles

  1. Restraint is the primary aesthetic. Premium apps use fewer colors, fewer font weights, fewer borders, fewer shadows. When in doubt, remove rather than add.
  2. Every visual difference must communicate a difference in meaning. If two elements look different, they should BE different. If they're the same type of thing, they must look identical.
  3. Hierarchy is not optional. Every screen has exactly one primary focal point, 2-3 secondary elements, and everything else recedes. If everything is emphasized, nothing is.
  4. Whitespace is a design element, not empty space. It creates grouping, hierarchy, and breathing room. Increasing whitespace almost always improves perceived quality.
  5. Color is information, not decoration. Each color in the palette should have a job. If a color doesn't communicate status, action, or brand, remove it.
  6. Consistency compounds. One slightly-off spacing value is invisible. Twenty slightly-off values make an app feel broken. Nail the system, not individual screens.
  7. The eye follows contrast. The highest-contrast element on screen gets attention first. Use this deliberately — never accidentally.

Visual Hierarchy

This is the single most impactful skill. A clear hierarchy makes any design feel professional; a muddled one makes even beautiful components feel amateurish.

Tools for creating hierarchy (in order of impact):

Size difference. The primary element should be dramatically larger than secondary elements. Not 10% larger — 50-100% larger. A page heading at text-3xl with body at text-sm creates immediate hierarchy. A heading at text-xl with body at text-lg creates mush.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 12d ago First seen · 174 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1d13faa9ecaa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

beautify is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,511 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 2026-08-30.

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