design-system-status

design-system-status is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from jrpease/throughline. It costs 0 tokens per session (575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reads a design-system.json file and explains the current state of a product's design system in plain language. A design system is a shared set of visual rules, reusable components, and development resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check Figma connections, design tokens, icons, components, repository and sync status, Storybook setup, and—when relevant—the results of a code and design audit.
Why use it?
It saves developers from interpreting raw configuration data to understand what has been built, connected, or left unfinished.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also installed under .cursor/.

Part of the throughline plugin — 12 skills, 5 commands, 4 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jrpease/throughline/design-system-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jrpease/throughline

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install throughline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 5 commands, 4 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for design-system-status

README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 575 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00575
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00057

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6e1c4ca275a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-system-status 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 6d 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.

adapters/cursor/.cursor/commands/design-system-status.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Read design-system.json and present a clear, plain-language summary of where the user's design system stands. This is the "where am I?" command — especially valuable for users who don't want to read raw JSON.

Report, in friendly prose (not a JSON dump), scaled to user.codingLevel:

  • Figma: connected? which mechanism? which file?
  • Tokens: primitives / semantic / styles built? how many collections? intake mode? two- or three-tier?
  • Foundations page, Icons: built? icon library + version + whether the code package is installed?
  • Components: which have been built in Figma?
  • Repo: what stage (folder / local-git / github)? remote?
  • Sync: which platforms/adapters? any custom adapters? when last run?
  • Storybook: initialized? Chromatic? Code Connect?
  • Coding level + UI framework on record.
  • Retrofit (brownfield only — skip the whole block if tokens.intakeMode isn't "retrofit" and audit.ranAt is null):
    • Audit: has it run (audit.ranAt)? If so, the code-surface counts (audit.codeSurface), the Figma inventory (audit.figmaInventory — variables, bindings, text/effect styles, modes), and how semantic the system is (audit.percentSemantic).
    • Crosswalk: is it built (tokenCrosswalk.path)? The status counts (tokenCrosswalk.statusCounts) and whether the validator is passing (tokenCrosswalk.validatorPassing).
    • Retrofit progress: which phase (retrofit.phase), and whether the decision journal was scaffolded (retrofit.journalScaffolded).

Then suggest sensible next steps based on what's missing — e.g. "You've got tokens and a repo but haven't synced yet — want to run /sync-figma-tokens?" or "No components yet — want to build your foundational set?" Offer, don't force.

For a brownfield system, suggest the next retrofit step from the state: no audit yet → "want to run design-system-audit to size the retrofit?"; audited but no crosswalk → "want to build the crosswalk with token-crosswalk-builder?"; mid-retrofit (retrofit.phase set, not "done") → "want to resume the retrofit at the <phase> phase with retrofit-planner?".

If design-system.json doesn't exist, explain that no design system has been set up in this folder yet and offer to run figma-environment-setup to start.

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. 6d ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6e1c4ca275a1

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design-system-status is a command published in the GitHub repository jrpease/throughline (76 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 575 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.