design-system

A rulebook for building Dotbot’s retro-futuristic control-panel interface, including its colors, layout, reusable parts, and visual rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or coding Dotbot UI screens, components, status indicators, sidebars, and module panels.
Why use it?
It keeps new screens consistent with the established CRT style and helps avoid conflicting CSS decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/andresharpe/dotbot/design-system
Any agent
npx skills add andresharpe/dotbot --skill design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andresharpe/dotbot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,253 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 $0.00030 $0.03253
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01626
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00651
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00325

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1e3f39c9571e, 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/design-system/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dotbot Design System

Design system for dotbot's retro-futuristic CRT control panel UI. Use this alongside the global frontend-design skill, which provides creative principles. This skill provides the project-specific constraints.

Identity

The UI is a vintage hardware control panel with phosphor CRT displays. Signature elements:

  • Phosphor glow — text-shadow on key values and status indicators
  • Scanline overlay — 2px repeating gradient on body::after, always present
  • Grid backgrounds — dual-scale (10px + 50px) on module screens
  • LED indicators — 8px glowing circles for status
  • Deep blacks — backgrounds from rgb(5,5,8) to rgb(13,14,20)
  • Amber phosphor — default primary color with warm glow

Architecture

CSS load order (each file has a specific responsibility):

  1. theme.css — Color system source of truth (CSS custom properties, RGB components, opacity variants, semantic data attributes)
  2. base.css — Font imports, reset, body, scrollbar, toast notifications, loading states
  3. layout.css — Page grid, header/footer, tabs, LED indicators
  4. sidebar.css — Left/right sidebar panels, navigation
  5. modules.css — Reusable components (stat cards, task lists, module panels, buttons)
  6. views.css — Tab-specific styles (pipeline, product, workflow)
  7. modal.css — Dialogs, task detail, forms
  8. crt.css — CRT effects, oscilloscope, panic button
  9. processes.css — Process/decision rows, interview UI
  10. responsive.css — Breakpoint overrides

Source of truth: src/ui/static/ Runtime copy: .bot/src/ui/static/ (generated by dotbot init)

Theme system: theme-config.json defines 6 presets as RGB arrays. theme.js reads the config and sets CSS custom properties at runtime. theme.css provides defaults and computes opacity variants.

Design Tokens

Colors

Reference: src/ui/static/css/theme.css

Semantic roles (all via CSS custom properties, never raw values):

Role Variable Default RGB Purpose
Primary --color-primary 232 160 48 Main text, actions, focus
Primary dim --color-primary-dim 184 120 32 Secondary text, muted primary
Secondary --color-secondary 95 179 179 Interactions, highlights, links
Tertiary --color-tertiary 170 136 255 Tags, metadata, decorative
Success --color-success 0 255 136 Completion, positive states
Error --color-error 209 105 105 Danger, failures
Warning --color-warning 232 160 48 Caution, attention
Info --color-info 68 136 255 Information, utility
Muted --color-muted 136 136 153 Labels, tertiary text

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 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. 3d ago First seen · 256 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 1e3f39c9571e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository andresharpe/dotbot (54 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,253 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 2026-08-30.

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