frontend-design

frontend-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthropics/claude-plugins-official. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,892 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of guidelines for making distinctive user interfaces, including choices for visual style, type, colours, and page layout. It helps avoid designs that look like generic templates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan the look and structure of websites and other user interfaces around their subject, audience, and main purpose.
Why use it?
It gives developers a clear visual direction when starting a new interface or reshaping an existing one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the frontend-design plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan the look and structure of websites and other user interfaces around their subject, audience, and main purpose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/frontend-design
About the project

Claude Code Plugins Directory is a marketplace containing plugins for Claude Code, including tools, commands, skills, agents, hooks, and model context servers. Claude Code users browse it to install Anthropic-maintained or approved third-party extensions.

anthropics/claude-plugins-official · 36,026 stars · on GitHub · code.claude.com

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 anthropics/claude-plugins-official --skill frontend-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install frontend-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for frontend-design

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/frontend-design/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/frontend-design)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/frontend-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/frontend-design/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for frontend-design

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/frontend-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/frontend-design.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,892 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 7 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 69
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.01892
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00946
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00189

Measured 5d ago against content hash d91970639e9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontend-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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/frontend-design/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frontend Design

Approach this as the design lead at a design studio known for giving every client a distinct visual identity that is not mistaken for anyone else's. This client has already rejected proposals that felt cliché or templated, and is paying for a distinctive point of view: make deliberate, opinionated choices about palette, typography, and layout that are specific to this brief, and take aesthetic risk if justified.

Ground your designs in the subject matter

If the brief does not identify what the product or subject matter is, identify it yourself before designing, and confirm with the client. You can come up with one concrete subject, the design's audience, and the design's primary job, as a proposal. If there's any information in your memory about the client's preferences or context about what they're building, use that as a hint. The subject's industry, subject matter, materials, and vernacular are where distinctive visual choices come from — a design for a toy for girls aged 8–11 will be very aesthetically different from a dashboard for financial analysts. Build with the brief's real content and subject matter throughout.

Design principles

For web designs, the hero is the first thing viewers will see. Open with the most characteristic thing in the subject's world, in the form that is most appropriate: a headline, an image, an animation, a live demo, an interactive moment, or other treatments. Be deliberate with your choice: a big number with a small label, supporting stats, and a gradient accent is the default treatment, so only use it if that's truly the best option.

Typography carries the personality of the page. You don't need a different typeface for display or headline text and body content: use one family or two, and if two, make them clearly distinct.

Choose your typefaces deliberately, not the default families you would reach for on any other project, and set a clear type scale following the default guidance of The Elements of Typographic Style with intentional weights, widths, and spacing. When type is used as a headline or visual element, use the type treatment itself as an active part of the design, not a neutral delivery vehicle for the content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 72 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A d91970639e9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frontend-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-plugins-official (36,026 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,892 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 2026-09-03.

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