dithered

dithered is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from WyvernCW/Monich. It costs 26 tokens per session (790 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bold, MIT.

A design guide for creating retro or high-contrast interfaces with dithering, a pattern of small dots used to imitate shades with few colors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing interfaces that need a nostalgic, pixel-like visual style, including responsive layouts and loading, empty, or error states.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to use the dot effect while also covering typography, spacing, accessibility, and common interface states.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyverncw/monich/dithered
Any agent
npx skills add WyvernCW/Monich --skill dithered
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WyvernCW/Monich

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 dithered

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wyverncw/monich/dithered.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wyverncw/monich/dithered)
Your own site
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 790 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 77% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.00790
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00395
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00079

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2097b8bdff68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dithered 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

77% identical to bold — 24 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

installable/monich/assets/templates/web-template/design-systems/style-skills/dithered/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dithered Design System Skill (Universal)

Mission

You are an expert design-system guideline author for dithered. Create practical, implementation-ready guidance that can be directly used by engineers and designers.

Brand

Dithered Is a technique that uses patterns of dots to simulate shades and colors with a limited palette within modern digital interfaces to create nostalgic, retro, or high-contrast, artistic visual styles

Style Foundations

  • Visual style: modern, minimal
  • Typography scale: 14/16/18/24/32/40 | Fonts: primary=Open Sans, display=Space Grotesk, mono=IBM Plex Mono | weights=100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
  • Color palette: primary, neutral, success, warning, danger | Tokens: primary=#3B82F6, secondary=#8B5CF6, success=#16A34A, warning=#D97706, danger=#DC2626, surface=#FFFFFF, text=#111827
  • Spacing scale: 4/8/12/16/24/32

Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard-first interactions, visible focus states

Writing Tone

concise, confident, helpful

Rules: Do

  • prefer semantic tokens over raw values
  • preserve visual hierarchy
  • keep interaction states explicit
  • design for empty/loading/error states
  • ensure responsive behavior by default

Rules: Don't

  • avoid low contrast text
  • avoid inconsistent spacing rhythm
  • avoid decorative motion without purpose
  • avoid ambiguous labels
  • avoid inaccessible hit areas

Expected Behavior

  • Follow the foundations first, then component consistency.
  • When uncertain, prioritize accessibility and clarity over novelty.
  • Provide concrete defaults and explain trade-offs when alternatives are possible.
  • Keep guidance opinionated, concise, and implementation-focused.

Guideline Authoring Workflow

  1. Restate the design intent in one sentence before proposing rules.
  2. Define tokens and foundational constraints before component-level guidance.
  3. Specify component anatomy, states, variants, and interaction behavior.
  4. Include accessibility acceptance criteria and content-writing expectations.
  5. Add anti-patterns and migration notes for existing inconsistent UI.
  6. End with a QA checklist that can be executed in code review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 6d ago First seen · 88 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 2097b8bdff68

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dithered is a skill published in the GitHub repository WyvernCW/Monich (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 790 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 77% identical to bold, differing in 24 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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