design-handoff

design-handoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 49 tokens per session (941 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design-to-development specification writer that documents how a finished interface should be built. It covers layout, colors and typography, component options, interactions, responsive behavior, accessibility, and unusual cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a Figma link, screenshot, or design description to create an engineering handoff specification.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork for developers by recording details that may not be obvious from a design alone, such as loading states, mobile behavior, keyboard use, and animation timing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the design plugin — 7 skills shipped together

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/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/design-handoff
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill design-handoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 941 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 $0.00049 $0.00941
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash 38f1efc80792, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-handoff 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 4d 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

design/skills/design-handoff/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/design-handoff

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Generate comprehensive developer handoff documentation from a design.

Usage

/design-handoff $ARGUMENTS

Generate handoff specs for: @$1

If a Figma URL is provided, pull the design from Figma. Otherwise, work from the provided description or screenshot.

What to Include

Visual Specifications

  • Exact measurements (padding, margins, widths)
  • Design token references (colors, typography, spacing)
  • Responsive breakpoints and behavior
  • Component variants and states

Interaction Specifications

  • Click/tap behavior
  • Hover states
  • Transitions and animations (duration, easing)
  • Gesture support (swipe, pinch, long-press)

Content Specifications

  • Character limits
  • Truncation behavior
  • Empty states
  • Loading states
  • Error states

Edge Cases

  • Minimum/maximum content
  • International text (longer strings)
  • Slow connections
  • Missing data

Accessibility

  • Focus order
  • ARIA labels and roles
  • Keyboard interactions
  • Screen reader announcements

Principles

  1. Don't assume — If it's not specified, the developer will guess. Specify everything.
  2. Use tokens, not values — Reference spacing-md not 16px.
  3. Show all states — Default, hover, active, disabled, loading, error, empty.
  4. Describe the why — "This collapses on mobile because users primarily use one-handed" helps developers make good judgment calls.

Output

## Handoff Spec: [Feature/Screen Name]

### Overview
[What this screen/feature does, user context]

### Layout
[Grid system, breakpoints, responsive behavior]

### Design Tokens Used
| Token | Value | Usage |
|-------|-------|-------|
| `color-primary` | #[hex] | CTA buttons, links |
| `spacing-md` | [X]px | Between sections |
| `font-heading-lg` | [size/weight/family] | Page title |

### Components
| Component | Variant | Props | Notes |
|-----------|---------|-------|-------|
| [Component] | [Variant] | [Props] | [Special behavior] |

### States and Interactions
| Element | State | Behavior |
|---------|-------|----------|
| [CTA Button] | Hover | [Background darken 10%] |
| [CTA Button] | Loading | [Spinner, disabled] |
| [Form] | Error | [Red border, error message below] |

### Responsive Behavior
| Breakpoint | Changes |
|------------|---------|
| Desktop (>1024px) | [Default layout] |
| Tablet (768-1024px) | [What changes] |
| Mobile (<768px) | [What changes] |

### Edge Cases
- **Empty state**: [What to show when no data]
- **Long text**: [Truncation rules]
- **Loading**: [Skeleton or spinner]
- **Error**: [Error state appearance]

### Animation / Motion
| Element | Trigger | Animation | Duration | Easing |
|---------|---------|-----------|----------|--------|
| [Element] | [Trigger] | [Description] | [ms] | [easing] |

### Accessibility Notes
- [Focus order]
- [ARIA labels needed]
- [Keyboard interactions]

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 4d ago First seen · 132 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 38f1efc80792

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design-handoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,839 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 941 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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