Agent skill

Brutalism

by sickn33 in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Web and App implementation guide for Brutalism. An agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

MITAuto-check passedMobile

Install Brutalism

skills CLI
$ npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill brutalism -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills brutalism --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/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-it/brutalism .claude/skills/brutalism && 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
brutalism
GitHub stars
47k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
345 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,497
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Web and App implementation guide for Brutalism. An agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

  • Works in 3 steps: Unstyled Components: Default browser… → Exposed Structure: Grid lines, tables… → Anti-Aesthetic: Intentional awkwardness.…
  • User wants a raw appearance
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Core Principles, Visual DNA and Web Implementation, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Brutalism is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Web and App implementation guide for Brutalism. Trigger when user wants a raw appearance, intentionally unfinished look, and rejection of standard design conventions.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Mobile, covering Cross-platform mobile apps. It works with React Native. The repository describes itself as: AAS Core is the local, agent-first control plane for complete catalog discovery, agent-owned selection, stack validation, and planning, backed by 2,400+ agentic skills. Includes… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User wants a raw appearance
  • Intentionally unfinished look
  • Rejection of standard design conventions

Example prompts

  • “/brutalism”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Unstyled Components: Default browser styling for buttons, inputs, and links is celebrated.
  2. Exposed Structure: Grid lines, tables with visible borders, and stark boundaries are used instead of whitespace to separate content.
  3. Anti-Aesthetic: Intentional awkwardness. Elements might slightly overlap in a way that feels broken, or use system default fonts.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b84d35a. 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 (its code samples are css, swift, dart, javascript and kotlin).

    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

Brutalism loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 44 tokens; SKILL.md has 345 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~44
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit b84d35a, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 345 words, ~2,108 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/brutalism/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
brutalism
description
Web and App implementation guide for Brutalism. Trigger when user wants a raw appearance, intentionally unfinished look, and rejection of standard design conventions.
date_added
2026-06-17
risk
safe
source
self
source_type
self

Brutalism

"Raw materials exposed. An intentional rejection of polish, gradients, and soft shadows."

When to Use

Use this sub-style when the user's request matches the aesthetic described above. This is a child reference of the design-it skill and is not meant to be triggered directly.

Core Principles

  1. Unstyled Components: Default browser styling for buttons, inputs, and links is celebrated.
  2. Exposed Structure: Grid lines, tables with visible borders, and stark boundaries are used instead of whitespace to separate content.
  3. Anti-Aesthetic: Intentional awkwardness. Elements might slightly overlap in a way that feels broken, or use system default fonts.

Visual DNA

  • Colors: High contrast, often clashing. Pure #0000FF blue for links, #FF0000 red for accents, on stark white or #C0C0C0 grey backgrounds. Industrial Chic palette fits best.
  • Typography: Courier New, Times New Roman, Comic Sans, or default sans-serifs. No web fonts.
  • Visuals: Dithered images, pixelated graphics, or heavily compressed jpegs.

Web Implementation

  • Use standard HTML tags without overriding their default appearance whenever possible.
  • CSS Example:
css
body {
  background-color: #ffffff;
  color: #000000;
  font-family: monospace;
}

/* Expose the structure */
.brutalist-container {
  border: 1px solid #000;
  padding: 10px;
}

.brutalist-section {
  border-bottom: 2px dashed #000;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  padding-bottom: 20px;
}

/* Default-looking button but massive */
.brutalist-btn {
  background-color: #c0c0c0;
  border: 2px outset #ffffff;
  border-right-color: #000000;
  border-bottom-color: #000000;
  color: #000000;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: 24px;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  cursor: pointer;
}

.brutalist-btn:active {
  border-style: inset;
}

/* System link blue */
a {
  color: #0000FF;
  text-decoration: underline;
}

App Implementation

SwiftUI
swift
struct BrutalistView: View {
    var body: some View {
        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 0) {
            Text("BRUTALISM")
                .font(.custom("Courier New", size: 32))
                .foregroundColor(.black)
                .padding(10)
                .border(Color.black, width: 2)
            
            Divider().background(Color.black).padding(.vertical, 20)
            
            Button(action: {}) {
                Text("CLICK_HERE")
                    .font(.custom("Courier New", size: 24))
                    .foregroundColor(.blue)
                    .underline()
            }
            .padding(10)
            
            // Raw structural container
            VStack(alignment: .leading) {
                Text("System Status: RAW").font(.custom("Courier New", size: 14))
            }
            .padding()
            .border(Color.black, width: 1)
        }
        .padding()
        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity, alignment: .topLeading)
        .background(Color.white)
    }
}
  • Avoid all native ButtonStyle components. Use Text with .underline() mapped to system blue.
  • Use .border(Color.black, width: 1) instead of backgrounds or shadows.
  • Force monospace fonts like Courier New or Menlo.
Flutter
dart
class BrutalistScreen extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    // DO NOT use MaterialApp theme or Scaffold if possible,
    // or strip them down completely.
    return Scaffold(
      backgroundColor: Colors.white,
      body: SafeArea(
        child: Padding(
          padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
          child: Column(
            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
            children: [
              Container(
                padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8),
                decoration: BoxDecoration(
                  border: Border.all(color: Colors.black, width: 2),
                ),
                child: const Text(
                  'BRUTALISM',
                  style: TextStyle(
                    fontFamily: 'Courier',
                    fontSize: 32,
                    color: Colors.black,
                  ),
                ),
              ),
              const Padding(
                padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 20),
                child: Divider(color: Colors.black, thickness: 2),
              ),
              GestureDetector(
                onTap: () {},
                child: const Text(
                  'CLICK_HERE',
                  style: TextStyle(
                    fontFamily: 'Courier',
                    fontSize: 24,
                    color: Colors.blue,
                    decoration: TextDecoration.underline,
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}
  • Avoid ElevatedButton, Card, or AppBar.
  • Build UI out of raw Containers with Border.all(color: Colors.black) and Text widgets.
  • Use TextDecoration.underline to indicate interactivity.
React Native
jsx
const BrutalistScreen = () => {
  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1, backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF', padding: 16 }}>
      <View style={{
        borderWidth: 2,
        borderColor: '#000000',
        padding: 10,
        alignSelf: 'flex-start'
      }}>
        <Text style={{ fontFamily: 'monospace', fontSize: 32, color: '#000' }}>
          BRUTALISM
        </Text>
      </View>
      
      <View style={{ height: 2, backgroundColor: '#000', marginVertical: 20 }} />
      
      <TouchableOpacity activeOpacity={1}>
        <Text style={{
          fontFamily: 'monospace',
          fontSize: 24,
          color: '#0000FF',
          textDecorationLine: 'underline'
        }}>
          CLICK_HERE
        </Text>
      </TouchableOpacity>

      <View style={{
        borderWidth: 1,
        borderColor: '#000',
        padding: 16,
        marginTop: 40
      }}>
        <Text style={{ fontFamily: 'monospace', color: '#000' }}>
          System Status: RAW
        </Text>
      </View>
    </View>
  );
};
  • Strip away all native feel. Do not use react-native-elements or react-native-paper.
  • Set activeOpacity={1} on TouchableOpacity so there is no smooth fade — it should just click instantly.
  • Use pure hex colors: #FFFFFF, #000000, #0000FF.
Jetpack Compose
kotlin
@Composable
fun BrutalistScreen() {
    Column(
        modifier = Modifier
            .fillMaxSize()
            .background(Color.White)
            .padding(16.dp)
    ) {
        Box(
            modifier = Modifier
                .border(2.dp, Color.Black)
                .padding(10.dp)
        ) {
            BasicText(
                text = "BRUTALISM",
                style = TextStyle(
                    fontFamily = FontFamily.Monospace,
                    fontSize = 32.sp,
                    color = Color.Black
                )
            )
        }
        
        Spacer(Modifier.height(20.dp))
        Box(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().height(2.dp).background(Color.Black))
        Spacer(Modifier.height(20.dp))
        
        BasicText(
            text = "CLICK_HERE",
            modifier = Modifier.clickable { },
            style = TextStyle(
                fontFamily = FontFamily.Monospace,
                fontSize = 24.sp,
                color = Color.Blue,
                textDecoration = TextDecoration.Underline
            )
        )
    }
}
  • Use BasicText instead of Text to bypass Material theme defaults.
  • Build structural lines using Box with .background(Color.Black).
  • Do not use Button or Card or any Material composables. Raw layouts only.

Do's and Don'ts

  • DO: Use harsh, high-contrast borders (1px solid black) around everything.
  • DON'T: Use border-radius, drop shadows, or smooth transitions. If it animates, it should pop instantly (0s transition).

Limitations

  • This is a styling reference and does not replace environment-specific validation, accessibility testing, or expert review.
  • Ensure appropriate contrast ratios and responsive behaviors are verified separately.

© sickn33, 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/design-it/brutalism of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b84d35a

Used in 1 other repository

We found 5 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Brutalism

What does Brutalism do?

Web and App implementation guide for Brutalism. An agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Brutalism is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Web and App implementation guide for Brutalism.

When should I use Brutalism?

Brutalism fits situations like: user wants a raw appearance; intentionally unfinished look; rejection of standard design conventions.

How do I install Brutalism in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill brutalism -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/design-it/brutalism in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .claude/skills/brutalism in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Brutalism in Codex?

Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill brutalism -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/design-it/brutalism in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .agents/skills/brutalism in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Brutalism 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill brutalism -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/brutalism, .gemini/skills/brutalism, .github/skills/brutalism and .opencode/skills/brutalism in your project.

What does Brutalism need to run?

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

Does Brutalism 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 Brutalism 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 Brutalism use?

Brutalism 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 Brutalism use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Brutalism?

sickn33 (a GitHub user) maintains it in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which has 47,405 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,497 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.