# agency-grid-layout-minimal

Sets a minimal agency-site direction with an editorial grid, oversized type and restrained image framing. Use it when a page needs structure rather than card-heavy sections.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1400 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/agency-grid-layout-minimal/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/agency-grid-layout-minimal

## What it does

This skill sets a design direction for the whole page: layout, typography, image framing, service rows, labels, calls to action and restrained motion. It uses a multi-column grid with open spans, oversized headlines and small uppercase utility text placed in adjacent columns.

Images are treated as large panoramic or architectural blocks on quiet neutral surfaces. Buttons use thin gradient-border wrappers, neutral fills and compact uppercase labels. Motion stays light, with text reveals, slow image settling and small hover shifts.

The skill rejects repeated-card agency pages, heavy borders, large shadows and dense component nesting. That matters if the page already behaves like a dashboard: spacing and grid structure need fixing before extra decoration is added.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill agency-grid-layout-minimal -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/agency-grid-layout-minimal/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/agency-grid-layout-minimal/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill agency-grid-layout-minimal -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/agency-grid-layout-minimal/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill agency-grid-layout-minimal -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/agency-grid-layout-minimal/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills agency-grid-layout-minimal
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/agency-grid-layout-minimal/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill agency-grid-layout-minimal -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/web-design/agency-grid-layout-minimal
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/agency-grid-layout-minimal/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill agency-grid-layout-minimal -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/web-design/agency-grid-layout-minimal/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a page around a multi-column editorial grid
- set oversized headlines with compact utility labels
- frame imagery as restrained architectural blocks
- lay out service rows without repeated cards
- keep motion limited to structural effects

## Example prompts
- Create an agency homepage using `agency-grid-layout-minimal`.
- Rework the landing page with an editorial grid and oversized hero type.
- Build a service section as a multi-column list with small metadata.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: agency-grid-layout-minimal
description: "Create a minimal agency design system with a disciplined editorial grid, oversized typography, quiet uppercase utility labels, restrained image blocks, and subtle structural detail."
---

# Agency Grid Layout Minimal Skill

## Use When
- Create a minimal agency design system with a disciplined editorial grid, oversized typography, quiet uppercase utility labels, restrained image blocks, and subtle structural detail.

## Workflow

## Scope
- Apply this as a full design-system direction across page layout, typography, image framing, service rows, labels, CTAs, and supporting motion.
- Use it when the design should feel like a refined architecture, design, or strategy agency site built on a strict grid and minimal visual language.
- This is not a generic startup landing page and not a heavily containerized dashboard. The layout should feel editorial, spacious, and precisely structured.

## Visual target
- Build the page on a disciplined multi-column grid with large open spans, careful alignment, and generous negative space.
- Use oversized headlines with tight tracking and strong line breaks as the primary visual anchor.
- Pair the hero typography with very small uppercase utility labels, timestamps, section markers, or descriptive copy blocks placed in adjacent grid columns.
- Keep surfaces minimal: light neutral backgrounds, subtle tonal shifts, thin separators, quiet image frames, and very restrained accent use.
- Let imagery feel architectural and premium, usually as large panoramic or facade-like blocks rather than card-heavy galleries.

## Implementation guidance
- Prefer wide max-width page shells with clear column divisions so content placements feel intentional and spatially engineered.
- Use a clean sans-serif type system with confident scale contrast: very large display sizes for hero and section titles, then tiny uppercase metadata and calm paragraph copy.
- Buttons should be refined and understated, using thin gradient-border wrappers, neutral fills, and small uppercase labels rather than loud pills.
- Section transitions can use subtle overlays, tonal blocks, or elevated white surfaces, but keep the overall system sparse and elegant.
- Add only a light amount of structural motion: masked text reveals, slow image settle, and restrained hover shifts are appropriate.
- Background effects, if present, should stay extremely quiet, such as a faint wireframe object, subtle texture, or low-opacity abstract geometry.

## Recommended patterns
- Large hero headline spanning most of the grid with supporting copy anchored in a narrow side column.
- Architectural image block framed by simple spacing and a quiet neutral background rather than decorative chrome.
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