design-system

A process for defining and enforcing a project's visual style before building web interfaces, including colors, spacing, typography, and component rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating a DESIGN.md guide and design tokens, applying consistent visual decisions, supporting themes such as dark mode, and reviewing UI work against the chosen design.
Why use it?
It prevents generated interfaces from falling back to generic layouts and default framework styles.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/gosha70/code-copilot-team/design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gosha70/code-copilot-team

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,580 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 $0.00042 $0.01580
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00158

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8c53943e7cab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

adapters/cursor/.cursor/rules/design-system.mdc · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design System Protocol

Invoke this skill for any web UI work (new frontend, new screen, UI refactor). Its job: stop AI-generated UI from converging on the statistical mean of the training data ("AI slop") by committing design decisions before code, and enforcing them as a machine-checkable filter.

Root cause it fixes: LLMs emit the highest-probability "nice" defaults — Inter font, purple→blue gradients, shadcn-default cards, centered hero + three feature columns, <div onClick> accessibility. No prompt adjective escapes this; only pre-committed constraints do. This skill produces and enforces those constraints.

The steering bundle: DESIGN.md + design/tokens.json

Every UI-bearing project commits a bundle, not a prose memo:

  • DESIGN.md at repo root — human + machine readable (YAML front-matter tokens
    • prose rationale and bans).
  • design/tokens.json — DTCG-format design tokens, two-tier primitive → semantic. Components reference only semantic tokens (else dark mode / re-theming becomes a rewrite). Compiles to tokens.css (Tailwind v4 @theme → CSS variables).

If the bundle is missing, author it first (Step 1–2). If it exists, read it before writing any component and build strictly within it.

Step 1 — Derive direction from the business domain (not taste)

"Clean and modern" is the slop default, not a direction. Derive an opinionated direction from the app's domain:

  1. Brand archetype (pick a primary + secondary from Jung's 12 — Ruler, Hero, Outlaw, Caregiver, Creator, Explorer, Sage, …). Each maps to visual semiotics: Ruler → restrained composition, elegant type, muted+metal; Outlaw → bold edgy type, dark + acid accent; Caregiver → soft, warm, rounded, reassuring.
  2. Target user + key tasks → information density and IA (a compliance analyst scanning tables ≠ a consumer onboarding flow).
  3. Tone → voice/copy rules + type personality.
  4. Lock one aesthetic direction from a small enumerated set (Swiss/editorial, brutalist, industrial-mono, organic, warm-minimal, high-density-data) and commit its tokens.
  5. Reference-ground: 1–3 real UIs whose feeling matches — extract palette, type scale, density; use to set constraints, never to clone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 2d ago First seen · 115 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8c53943e7cab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-system is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository gosha70/code-copilot-team (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,580 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.