html-author

html-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zenitheditor/zenith. It costs 70 tokens per session (242 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for building a complete fixed-size page or multi-page document as one HTML file, using HTML for structure and CSS for appearance. It covers items such as flyers, reports, invoices, and posters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create new one-page or multi-page visual documents from a brief, then render and refine their layout.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable process for creating a finished layout and checking the rendered result for cut-off text, poor contrast, or spacing problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create new one-page or multi-page visual documents from a brief, then render and refine their layout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zenitheditor/zenith/html-author
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 zenitheditor/zenith --skill html-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zenitheditor/zenith

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 242 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 $0.00070 $0.00242
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00097
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00024

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7c18dafbe5cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

html-author 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 4d 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.

bench/revision/skills/html-author/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

HTML design authoring

Build the whole design in one file at the canvas size the task gives. Write the file once, then refine it.

Read references/authoring.md before the first write.

  1. Decide the hierarchy first: what is read first, second, and last. Size and weight carry it.
  2. Write design.html with every page as a fixed-size section. Put colors, sizes, and spacing in CSS variables at the top.
  3. Lay out with flex or grid inside each page. Use absolute positioning only for decoration.
  4. Render with view and check each page.
  5. Fix what the render shows: cramped or cut-off text, weak contrast, uneven spacing, empty regions.
  6. Stop when every page reads clearly. Reply with one short sentence.
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. 4d ago First seen · 18 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 7c18dafbe5cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

html-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository zenitheditor/zenith (22 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 242 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-12.

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