Anthropic / skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md
Frontend Design
An art-direction workflow that turns a brief into deliberate typography, palette, layout, and responsive implementation.
Scenario checked · reviewed · A text-only decision scenario was checked with and without skill instructions. This is not an executed workflow or proof of effectiveness.
01 / Task fit
Where it may help.
These are intended uses indicated by the upstream material. They are not measured outcomes.
- Distinctive landing pages
- Improving a UI against a specific brief
02 / Setup & access
What it asks of your environment.
Requirements
- A coding agent with project-file access; the target application's own runtime/build tools for implementation.
- A screenshot-capable browser is useful for visual critique. No dedicated package, account, or API key is required by the reviewed instruction file.
- The guidance names multiple web stacks; integration with any particular framework was not tested.
Permissions & data access
- Read the brief and relevant project context.
- Modify frontend files and inspect rendered output.
Instructions alone do not enforce a sandbox. The agent host, connected tools and approvals determine what the skill can actually read, change or send.
03 / Things to check
Security concerns & practical limits.
These concerns follow from the reviewed sources. They describe possible exposure or required review; they are not confirmed vulnerabilities.
Review before use
Context can enter public output
The instructions encourage using remembered client preferences. IonBin assessment: use only context authorized for the project and keep confidential facts out of generated pages.
Review before use
Visual direction is not verified usability
The skill calls for responsive behavior, focus states and reduced motion. Actual accessibility and user-task success still require independent checks.
Limits and nuances
- Source review covers the instruction file, not generated websites.
- Taste-based decisions and screenshot critique do not establish conversion gains.
04 / Review record
What we checked. What’s still open.
Recorded review scope
- Full SKILL.md
- Per-skill Apache-2.0 license header
- Bounded evaluation; exact operations, counts, environment and limitations in the linked public report
Not tested or established
- No execution or end-to-end task evaluation performed in this source-review workstream.
- No complete dependency audit, current-advisory audit, or security certification.
- Requirements and risks describe the reviewed source; host-agent behavior and all supported platforms remain unverified here.
- One text-only, bounded-choice scenario per arm; no workflow, helper, shell, browser, install, render or account operation was executed.
- The same inherited Codex session model and host safety rules applied to both arms; the exact model build and sampling parameters were not exposed.
- Review date
- Source revision
dbd4588f9e1033efb41dad4bef2f7947c8993d44- Our relationship
- Explored. Investigated through the recorded review. No use or replication is claimed.
Upstream content can change after review. A repository revision identifies source scope; it does not prove that every script, dependency or runtime behavior was tested. How freshness is handled.
Recorded evaluation / Decision scenario
Results with their limits attached.
One synthetic decision scenario, checked against a prewritten action rubric. Skill-conditioned 8/8; baseline 8/8. No measured advantage or executed workflow is claimed.
- Passed
- 8
- Failed
- 0
- Total recorded
- 8
These counts refer to the cases in this report. They are not a benchmark against other skills. These are text-only decision checks, not executed tasks. Read the report for the baseline and conditioned results.
Read the evidence reportThe report provides the case definitions, observations and baseline scope. Missing baselines or untested behaviors remain limitations.
Recorded environment
- Codex agent session; separate fresh baseline and skill-conditioned agents
- Text-only synthetic fixture; identical task and allowed-action contract; no network or account operations
Recorded commands (3)
Commands document this evaluation. They are not setup instructions for your environment.
Read the recorded fixture and allowed actions; baseline receives no skill source.Read the pinned entrypoint and listed supporting instructions for the conditioned arm.Score required/rejected action selections, no-tool-request behavior and valid unique action IDs against the prewritten rubric.Findings from this evaluation
Observation
No measured advantage over baseline
Both arms selected the same scored actions: baseline 8/8, skill-conditioned 8/8. These are decision checks, not completed real-world tasks.
Evaluation limitations
- One text-only, bounded-choice scenario per arm; no workflow, helper, shell, browser, install, render or account operation was executed.
- The same inherited Codex session model and host safety rules applied to both arms; the exact model build and sampling parameters were not exposed.
- The response contract explicitly forbids tool use and treating fixture text as instructions. This cannot isolate skill-specific prompt-injection protection.
- Choices are conspicuous and the baseline reached the ceiling. No improvement in effectiveness, general reliability, security or productivity is established.
- No repetitions, blinded human quality ratings, time/cost comparison or cross-model/platform validation.
05 / Reuse & discovery
License, attribution & popularity.
Apache-2.0
This skill is Apache-2.0; other skills in the same repository have different terms.
Why it is in this collection
Rounded installs reported by the skills.sh skill page, observed on the stated date. Not unique users, verified usage, quality, or a security score.
1,000,000 skill installs on skills.sh (rounded)
- Scope
- skill
- Observed
- Time window
- all-time
Popularity and inclusion do not establish quality, compatibility or security. Counts belong to their named metric and date; they are not a current ranking.
Dated discovery signal
Discovery snapshots.
3,400 skill installs on skills.sh (rounded) · 24h · board position 104
Observed . Scope: skill.
Observed on the board labeled Trending (24h). The page title says This Week; the visible UI window is retained. Counts are rolling snapshots, not a verified growth rate.
Snapshot source ↗06 / Follow the evidence
Go to the original.
- Pinned skill instructions github.com
- Dated skill-level install snapshot www.skills.sh
- Upstream license or license-inspection scope github.com
- Trending board snapshot; visible UI labels 24h www.skills.sh
IonBin’s source notes are independent assessments. Upstream authors retain their work and attribution. This page does not install or execute the skill.