whimsical-design

whimsical-design is a skill for Claude Code from aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,796 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidance for giving user interfaces a distinctive, playful, or expressive visual style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for marketing pages, landing pages, portfolios, launches, or other visual work where delight and creative direction are part of the brief. It is not intended for ordinary utility or administration screens.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic-looking designs when a project needs personality, brand expression, or editorial energy.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-design-system plugin — 10 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for marketing pages, landing pages, portfolios, launches, or other visual work where delight and creative direction are part of the brief. It is not intended for ordinary utility or administration screens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system/whimsical-design
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system --skill whimsical-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-design-system, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,796 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 $0.00048 $0.02796
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01398
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00280

Measured 10d ago against content hash 97df817663cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whimsical-design 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 10d 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.

skills/whimsical-design/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Whimsical Design Skill

⚠️ Creative Pack — NOT auto-apply

This skill is part of the creative pack. Do NOT apply it by default on every visual task.

Use ONLY when at least one is true:

  • user explicitly asks for personality, delight, whimsy, or brand expression
  • task is marketing, landing page, portfolio, launch, or editorial
  • the default/safe output is clearly the problem (everything looks the same)
  • multiple creative directions are being explored on purpose

Do NOT use when:

  • building utility UI, admin tools, settings pages, or internal tools
  • the product already has a clear design language you should match
  • the default aesthetic is already appropriate for the product category
  • task is primarily about structure, states, or production hardening

If in doubt, skip this skill. Core skills (design-review, ux-baseline-check, ui-polish-pass) are always safe. This one requires judgment about whether "push past safe" is actually what the product needs.

When It Applies

Design-review catches quality problems. This skill pushes toward delight. Use alongside <skills-root>/design-review/SKILL.md when the triggers above are met.

The Bar

Would someone screenshot this and send it to a friend? Would it make them smile? If no, push further.

Core Principles

1. Whimsy Over Sterile

Default away from corporate SaaS. Toward warmth, personality, surprise. Think: the feeling of opening a Playdate box, or the first time you saw a Teenage Engineering product page.

  • Pixel art, hand-drawn textures, playful illustrations
  • Warm color palettes over cold neutral grays
  • Personality in empty states, loading screens, error messages
  • Small details that reward people who look closely

2. Juice

Everything should feel alive. Static interfaces are dead interfaces.

  • Micro-interactions on hover, click, drag
  • Subtle spring animations on state changes
  • Parallax, bob, breathe — things that move even when idle
  • Sound design where appropriate (click, whoosh, chirp)
  • The difference between "functional" and "delightful" is 50ms of easing

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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. 10d ago First seen · 207 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 97df817663cb

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whimsical-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository aa-on-ai/agentic-design-system (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,796 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.

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