Agent skill

S4h Aesthetic

by human-avatar in human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Entry point for the aesthetic toolkit. An agent skill from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.

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Install S4h Aesthetic

skills CLI
$ npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-aesthetic -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install human-avatar/skills-for-humanity s4h-aesthetic --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/s4h-aesthetic .claude/skills/s4h-aesthetic && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
s4h-aesthetic
GitHub stars
231
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
600 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Entry point for the aesthetic toolkit. An agent skill from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.

  • You say aesthetic
  • SKILL.md covers Which tool fits, Routing Decision, Confirm Direction and Coherence Check, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Check the design

What it does

S4h Aesthetic is an agent skill from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. Entry point for the aesthetic toolkit. Routes to the right aesthetic skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'aesthetic', 'check the design', 'does this feel right', 'is this elegant', 'is this too complex', 'what pattern is this', 'find the simpler version', or want an aesthetic lens applied without knowing which specific tool fits.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Structured reasoning methodologies from history's most rigorous thinkers, packaged as Claude Code skills. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • You say aesthetic
  • Check the design
  • Does this feel right
  • Is this elegant

Example prompts

  • “aesthetic”
  • “check the design”
  • “does this feel right”
  • “/s4h-aesthetic”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a30df8b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

S4h Aesthetic loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 600 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity at commit a30df8b, republished under its MIT licence (© human-avatar). 600 words, ~1,191 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/s4h-aesthetic/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
s4h-aesthetic
description
Entry point for the aesthetic toolkit. Routes to the right aesthetic skill based on your situation. Use when you say 'aesthetic', 'check the design', 'does this feel right', 'is this elegant', 'is this too complex', 'what pattern is this', 'find the simpler version', or want an aesthetic lens applied without knowing which specific tool fits.

Aesthetic

Applies aesthetic reasoning to any artifact — design, writing, code, product, argument. Diagnoses what kind of aesthetic question is being asked and applies the right tool.

Which tool fits

You need to...Tool
Check whether parts form a unified wholecoherence-check
Test whether something is more complex than it needs to beelegance-testing
Name the underlying structural pattern at workpattern-detection
Find the simpler version while preserving what matterssimplicity-analysis

Routing Decision

  • Something feels off, jarring, or inconsistent → coherence-check
  • Something feels over-engineered or baroque → elegance-testing
  • You want to understand why something works (or doesn't) → pattern-detection
  • You want to strip something back to its core → simplicity-analysis
  • Unclear → start with coherence-check; it usually surfaces which other question needs answering

Framing check: Confirm the specific artifact before routing. State what you've identified — the actual object being analyzed and the aesthetic question being asked — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the artifact and the aesthetic question]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Confirm Direction

After diagnosing which tool fits, use the AskUserQuestion tool to confirm direction. Construct the question dynamically to include your diagnosis:

  • Question: "My read: [diagnosed tool] — [one sentence on why it fits]. How would you like to proceed?"
  • Header: "Direction"
  • Options:
    • Yes, run that tool — Execute the diagnosed skill immediately using the context already provided
    • Show all options — List every skill in this category with one-line descriptions
    • Quick version — Run a lighter-weight alternative if one exists for this situation
    • Re-diagnose — Revisit the situation description for a different read

Proceed based on their selection.


Coherence Check

Tests whether the parts form a unified whole.

Map all major elements of the artifact. For each: what design decision does it express? Ask: are these decisions speaking the same language — or were they made independently, without reference to each other? Name each incoherence specifically. Classify: surface incoherence (fixable with small changes) vs. structural incoherence (requires rethinking something fundamental).

Output: List of incoherences ranked by severity. For each: what it is, where it appears, what it conflicts with, and how to resolve it.


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Elegance Testing

Tests whether something is more complex than it needs to be.

Separate necessary complexity (required by the problem) from accidental complexity (accreted over time, added as hedging, or left over from old requirements). For each layer of complexity: could the same job be done without it? What would be lost? Apply the minimum surface principle — is every part earning its place?

Output: Complexity audit — each complex element classified as necessary or accidental, with a cost estimate for removing it.


Pattern Detection

Identifies the underlying formal pattern.

Look past the surface. What structural form does this follow? Name candidate patterns. Test each: does the structure actually match, or just superficially resemble it? Once identified: what does naming the pattern unlock? What's the established playbook for this form?

Output: Named pattern, evidence for the identification, what the pattern predicts or implies, and the playbook it suggests.


Simplicity Analysis

Finds the simpler version while preserving what matters.

First: what is the core? The irreducible thing this artifact must do or be. Now audit everything else against that core: does each element serve it, or distract from it? For everything that doesn't serve the core, ask whether it was added for a reason that's still valid.

Output: What the core is. What can go. What should stay but be simplified. The simplest version that still does the full job.

© human-avatar, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/s4h-aesthetic of human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a30df8b

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Questions about S4h Aesthetic

What does S4h Aesthetic do?

Entry point for the aesthetic toolkit. An agent skill from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. S4h Aesthetic is an agent skill from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. Entry point for the aesthetic toolkit.

When should I use S4h Aesthetic?

S4h Aesthetic fits situations like: you say aesthetic; check the design; does this feel right; is this elegant.

How do I install S4h Aesthetic in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-aesthetic -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/s4h-aesthetic in human-avatar/skills-for-humanity) into .claude/skills/s4h-aesthetic in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install S4h Aesthetic in Codex?

Run `npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-aesthetic -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/s4h-aesthetic in human-avatar/skills-for-humanity) into .agents/skills/s4h-aesthetic in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use S4h Aesthetic in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-aesthetic -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/s4h-aesthetic, .gemini/skills/s4h-aesthetic, .github/skills/s4h-aesthetic and .opencode/skills/s4h-aesthetic in your project.

What does S4h Aesthetic need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: S4h Aesthetic is instructions for the agent only.

Does S4h Aesthetic access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is S4h Aesthetic safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does S4h Aesthetic use?

S4h Aesthetic is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does S4h Aesthetic use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to S4h Aesthetic?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with S4h Aesthetic: Smart Contract Entry Point Analyzer (trailofbits/skills, 7.5k stars), HyperFrames Video Entry Point (heygen-com/hyperframes, 60k stars), OmniRoute Routing CLI (diegosouzapw/OmniRoute, 75k stars) and OmniRoute Combo Routing (diegosouzapw/OmniRoute, 75k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains S4h Aesthetic?

human-avatar (a GitHub organization) maintains it in human-avatar/skills-for-humanity, which has 231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 15, 2026.

Source: human-avatar/skills-for-humanity on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.