Be the first strip listed here
Examples
My own mods, including the one that still needs work.Your mod
Start blank or from an example, then tell the strip which mod it is for.
Start from
An example fills in every circle; change any of it to match your mod. Picking one replaces the strip below.
The examples are the strips of the mods by Squeetsquib, who makes Honest Mods. Starting from one makes a new strip of your own; it never edits theirs.
Mod page
Where your mod lives. A Nexus page fills in the name, author and picture by itself.
Name, author and picture
Left blank on a Nexus page, Browse fills it in from Nexus.
The picture on your Browse row and details page.
On the strip
Two choices that change how the strip reads.
Be straight about it: readers can doubt any answer. Press your pick again to leave it unsaid.
One, two or three rows of circles.
One quick row: a strip with featured milestones always reads in one.
The six
The strip shows these six big, so a reader gets it in two seconds. Mark each one honestly; a note opens once you have.
Featured 0 / 6
More milestones optional
Everything else you can vouch for. These sit small beside the six on the strip, and in full on the details page. Pick a state to add one.
The library
Grouped by what they are about. Open a group to mark what you did.
Your own milestone
Anything the library does not have, in your words.
Source
Where readers can read the code. It adds a small chip beside the strip that links there.
Source link
A repository or any page with the code.
Find a Nexus mod by its ID
For a mod page that is not a Nexus link yet.
What the chip does
- A GitHub link
- Draws the GitHub mark, the owner over the repository name, and a View source button.
- Any other host
- GitLab, Codeberg, a zip on your own site: the path beside a code mark, with the same button.
- No source link
- The BBCode leaves the chip out. The Source available milestone still tells readers where they stand.
- The mod page
- The strip's own link back to your mod, set in step 1. Browse lists one strip per mod page.
The chip
As a mod page shows it.
Publish
The three pictures your mod page will show: the strip, the source chip and what readers say.
Put it on your mod page
Copy the BBCode and paste it into your Nexus description.
A still picture, sharp at any size.
Paste it into your mod description.
List it in Browse
So readers here can find it, vote and comment. Optional: the BBCode works without it.
Keep this to edit or remove your listing. It is shown once and kept in this browser.
Other ways to save
The PNG is 3× with a transparent outside. A share link opens this page with your strip, for someone else to change; nothing is stored.
I have a key from before
Your author profile
One page for you and your mods: a picture, a line about you, how sure you are of your skills, and every strip you listed. No password: your author code is the key.
Picture
Square works best; we crop it to a circle and keep a 256 px copy. PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF.
About you
How sure are you?
Your own word, shown as yours. Nobody grades you here but you.
Your author code
The key to your profile and your listings. Write it down: on another computer or phone, type it below and everything is yours there too.
This browser
Signed in here with your code. Signing out removes it from this browser only; your profile and strips stay, and the code signs you back in.
Your mods
Make another stripAuthor
Nexus profileMods
No strips listed yet.
Why this exists
Lots of modders use AI now, me included. The meter isn't here to call anyone out. It gives authors who use AI carefully a way to show it, and gives everyone else a checklist for getting better at it. Best practices explains every circle and how to earn it.
What this is
A strip for the top of a mod page. One circle per thing the author did: full if they did it, half if they sort of did, empty if they didn't, with their own note under it. The number at the end adds it up. A yes is one point, a partly is half, and testing milestones count double, because testing is where AI-built mods most often fall short. Click the strip to see every circle explained.
Why only six are big
The strip shows six of them big, so you can read it in a couple of seconds. Everything else is squeezed in small next to them and listed in full on the details page. The number still counts all of them.
Why the author fills it in
Because only the author knows if anyone actually read the code the AI wrote, or ran the thing on a machine other than their own. Nobody can check that from outside, so the meter just asks them to say it in public. Think something's off? Doubt that circle and say why in the comments.
The maker also asks one plain question: how much AI went into it? None, some help, or a lot. Answer None and the strip carries a MADE WITHOUT AI mark, and the circles that only matter for AI code (read by a person, APIs checked, AI use disclosed, can explain it) count as met. Everything else still has to be earned, so a None strip scores well only when it shows the testing and care too. Readers can doubt that answer like any other.
Doubting a circle
Every circle on a details page has Confirm and Doubt. Three or more doubts, and more doubts than confirms, and it gets flagged: a dashed ring on the strip and a second number next to the author's. The author's circles never change. Readers just get to write on them.
The four it checks itself
Most circles are just the author's word. Four of them the meter checks itself once a strip is listed, and marks verified or not seen.
Source available means the link is a public repo on GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Bitbucket, SourceForge or Gitea (other hosts aren't checked). Changelog kept means the Nexus page has changelog entries. Maintained means it was updated on Nexus in the last 180 days. AI use disclosed means the listing says what the AI did.
None of that proves the mod is any good. A public repo means you can read the code, not that anyone did.
Where the picture comes from
The whole strip lives in its link, and honestmods.dev draws it from there. Nothing gets saved for a drawing. Change something, copy the BBCode again, and the new link replaces the old picture.
What gets saved
Votes, doubts, comments, and your Browse listing if you make one. One vote per person per strip per day, counted with a salted hash that never gets written down. No accounts, no cookies, no tracking.
Comments
Every details page has a comment thread. Plain text, 500 characters, any name or none. Tag it Works for me, Bug report or Note; bug reports get counted on the live strip. Abusive, spam, or someone's personal info? Hit Report. Enough reports and it's hidden.
Editing it later
Listing a strip gets you an author code, three words and a number like amber-fox-412. That one code edits or removes every strip you list with it, from any device. Write it down. There's no account and no reset, so if you lose it, it's gone.
Getting listed
Browse only shows strips their authors chose to list. Search by name, author, game, milestone or note. Publish your strip, then hit List it in Browse. One listing per mod page.
The 45 milestones
Each is phrased as the good outcome, so a filled circle always means the mod has it.