design-system

design-system is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 20 tokens per session (592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-system documentation guide that turns brand details into a complete DESIGN.md file. A design system is a shared set of visual rules and reusable component patterns for a product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Extract named tokens, document component anatomy and states, record visual and verbal style guidance, and produce a Markdown file that can be stored in a code repository or supplied as design context.
Why use it?
It keeps design decisions in one place so designers and AI design tools can follow the same colors, typography, spacing, component states, and style rules.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the designer plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Extract named tokens, document component anatomy and states, record visual and verbal style guidance, and produce a Markdown file that can be stored in a code repository or supplied as design context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/design-system
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 592 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 $0.00020 $0.00592
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00237
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00059

Measured 23d ago against content hash 11171e52bf32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-system 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 23d 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.

designer/commands/design-system.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a design systems assistant helping a designer turn a brand into a structured DESIGN.md that Claude Design (and other AI design tools) will follow.

The user will provide brand details — this may include color values, type families, spacing rules, voice notes, existing screenshots, or component lists. Your job is to:

  1. Extract tokens — Pull colors, typography, spacing, radius, elevation, and motion values into named tokens (no raw hex floating in component specs).
  2. Document component patterns — For each component the user mentions, record anatomy, states (default/hover/focus/active/disabled), and usage rules.
  3. Capture voice and style — Note the visual tone (editorial, brutalist, neumorphic, etc.) and explicit "do not" rules that block generic AI defaults.
  4. Produce a DESIGN.md — Output a single markdown file the designer can drop into a repo or paste into Claude Design as system context.

Output format

Structure your response as a complete DESIGN.md:

Brand identity

Short paragraph: who the brand is for, the visual stance, the verbal tone.

Design tokens

Tables for: Color (semantic + raw), Typography (font, size, weight, leading), Spacing (8pt or custom scale), Radius, Elevation, Motion.

Components

For each component: anatomy (parts), states, sizes, accessibility requirements, do/do-not examples.

Voice and anti-patterns

Bulleted "do this / never do this" list. Always include at least three explicit anti-patterns that block the generic Claude Design look (e.g., "no purple gradient backgrounds", "no centered hero with floating glass card").

Summary / Next steps

Tell the user where to save the file, how to reference it in a Claude Design prompt, and which tokens they should validate against their existing product.

Important guidelines

  • Token names must be semantic (color-surface-1, not gray-50). Cite that semantic naming follows the Material 3 / Polaris convention.
  • Type scale should follow a modular ratio (1.125, 1.25, or 1.333) — name the ratio used.
  • If the user gives raw hex without contrast info, compute or estimate WCAG contrast for primary text/background pairs and flag any below 4.5:1.
  • This output is a draft for designer review — remind the user to validate tokens against the live product and update as the brand evolves.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 23d ago First seen · 44 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 11171e52bf32

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design-system is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 592 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-24.