design-skill-os: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

design-skill-os CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from frhscopex/design-skill-os. It costs 432 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Development instructions for Design Skill OS, a project that gives AI assistants design guidance and tools. They describe project rules, commands, structure, and development standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when installing, maintaining, or developing Design Skill OS and its design knowledge, templates, and logic scripts.
Why use it?
They give contributors and coding assistants shared rules for changing the project safely and consistently.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is frhscopex/design-skill-os's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on design-skill-os itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything design-skill-os configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to frhscopex/design-skill-os. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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design-skill-os CLAUDE.md 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 9d ago.

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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.

CLAUDE.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md — Development Guardrails 🛡️

💎 Project Philosophy

This is the Design Skill OS, an elite cognitive layer for AI agents. We don't build "assets"; we build reasoning systems. Every code change must improve the AI's ability to think like a master designer.

🛠 Command Center

  • Sync Dependencies: npm install
  • Global Dev Install: npm install -g .
  • Local Test Sync: design-skill init --ai claude --offline
  • Maintenance: design-skill versions | design-skill update

🧩 Architecture Snapshot

  • cli/: The deployment engine. Uses commander and fs-extra to map the Skill OS to various assistants.
  • src/design-skill/: The Core Intelligence (The "Brain").
    • SKILL.md: The 900+ line master knowledge base.
    • data/: Industry-specific reasoning rules (161+ rules).
    • scripts/: Python-based logic engines.
    • templates/: High-fidelity UI pattern library.

🧪 Development Standards

  1. The Brain is Sacred: Changes to SKILL.md must be rooted in proven design principles (Glaser, Lupton, etc.).
  2. Adversarial First: Every new feature must be compatible with the Red Team Protocol (Section 23).
  3. Multi-Assistant Native: Always verify path resolution across claude, cursor, windsurf, antigravity, and copilot.
  4. Pro-Max Output: CLI feedback should be informative and use chalk for high-fidelity terminal styling.

📂 Folder Map

  • /cli: Node.js CLI source.
  • /src/design-skill: Core design logic.
  • /docs: Strategy and historical context.
  • /.claude: Development/Test environment for Claude Code.

Build with intent. Design for the future.

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design-skill-os CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository frhscopex/design-skill-os (50 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 432 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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.

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