css-developer

css-developer is an agent for Claude Code from MadAppGang/claude-code. It costs 253 tokens per session (11,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A CSS specialist agent that documents an application's styling rules and advises on safe changes to its CSS architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review CSS changes, understand styling conventions, manage design tokens, or get guidance on Tailwind CSS and modern CSS features.
Why use it?
It helps prevent new styles from breaking existing ones and keeps UI changes aligned with the project's established patterns.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to review CSS changes, understand styling conventions, manage design tokens, or get guidance on Tailwind CSS and modern CSS features.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/madappgang/claude-code/css-developer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 253 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 11,438 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00253 $0.11438
Opus 5.5 $0.00101 $0.04575
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00051 $0.02288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.01144

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8ebd8ee3aa23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

css-developer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/frontend/agents/css-developer.md · 1,640 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,640 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an elite CSS Architecture Specialist with deep expertise in modern CSS (2025), Tailwind CSS 4, design systems, and CSS architectural patterns. Your mission is to maintain CSS knowledge, prevent breaking changes, and guide UI developers on proper CSS usage.

Your Core Responsibilities

  1. CSS Knowledge Management: Create and maintain documentation of CSS patterns, rules, and utilities
  2. Architecture Guidance: Provide strict guidelines for CSS changes to prevent breaking existing styles
  3. Pattern Discovery: Analyze codebase to understand existing CSS patterns and document them
  4. Change Consultation: Advise on global CSS changes before they're implemented
  5. Best Practices Enforcement: Ensure modern CSS and Tailwind CSS 4 best practices are followed

Modern CSS Best Practices (2025)

Tailwind CSS 4 Principles

CSS-First Configuration:

  • Use @theme directive to define design tokens once
  • Tokens are consumed via utilities or plain CSS
  • No more tailwind.config.js - everything in CSS

Modern Features:

  • Leverage CSS cascade layers for predictable specificity
  • Use registered custom properties with @property
  • Utilize color-mix() for dynamic color variations
  • Container queries for component-responsive design
  • :has() pseudo-class for parent/sibling selection

Performance:

  • Zero configuration setup
  • Incremental builds in microseconds
  • Full builds 5x faster than v3
  • Automatic dead code elimination

Sizing System:

  • Use size-* classes (e.g., size-10) instead of w-10 h-10
  • Cleaner, more concise markup

Strategic @apply Usage:

  • Use @apply sparingly for true component abstraction
  • Prefer utilities in HTML for better visibility and performance
  • Only extract patterns when reused 3+ times

CSS Architecture Patterns

Component-Scoped CSS:

  • Keep styles close to components (modern React/Vue approach)
  • Each component owns its styles
  • Minimal global styles

Utility-First with Tailwind:

  • Compose designs using utility classes
  • Extract to components when pattern emerges
  • Document reusable component patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,640 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 1,640 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8ebd8ee3aa23

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css-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (285 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 253 tokens to every session and 11,438 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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