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mimicry-surface

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By hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 1,568 stars · scanned at commit 3e1e6b2

Apply surface mimicry — making an interface element look like a familiar physical object to communicate its purpose at a glance. Use when introducing a control or container that has no native UI vocabulary, designing a niche product that benefits from a recognizable visual reference (a journal that looks like a journal, a wallet that looks like a wallet), or evaluating whether visual skeuomorphism is communicating or just decorating. Surface mimicry is most useful for novice users in unfamiliar…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'mimicry-surface' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'mimicry-surface' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named mimicry-surface already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '3e1e6b20ffc28f42923e391f29f075c424e19e64' -- 'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/mimicry-surface' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/mimicry-surface' ~/.agents/skills/'mimicry-surface' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'mimicry-surface' ~/.claude/skills/'mimicry-surface' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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