designer-setup

A setup command for checking whether the designer-skill package and its MCP connection are available. MCP is a standard way for an agent to call an external tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify installation, test the designer-skill connection, inspect available commands, and configure the connection manually if needed.
Why use it?
It helps find missing Node.js, package, network, or connection setup before using the design tools.

Command

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/pymodel/designer-skill/designer-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PyModel/designer-skill
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 299 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 $0.00013 $0.00299
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash c6b3e1e78c89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designer-setup 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 2d 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.

commands/designer-setup.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

designer-skill Setup

Step 1: Check MCP package

npx -y @pymodel/designer-skill-mcp --version

If this prints a version, the npm package resolves. If not, check Node.js (18+) and network access.

Step 2: Verify MCP is connected

In Cursor: Settings → Tools & MCP — confirm designer-skill is listed and enabled.

Or test from the shell:

npx -y @pymodel/designer-skill-mcp --check-update

Step 3: Smoke test

Ask the agent:

Use designer-skill: call get_preflight_brief, then commit_design_direction for a sample brand landing page direction, then list_commands.

You should see the skill router and command list.

Manual MCP config

If the plugin did not wire MCP, add repo-root mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "designer-skill": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pymodel/designer-skill-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Pin a version for teams: replace @latest with @0.15.0.

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. 2d ago First seen · 52 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A c6b3e1e78c89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

designer-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository PyModel/designer-skill (30 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 299 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.