design-system

A guide for checking and evolving a product’s design system—the shared rules for colors, text, spacing, reusable components, and interaction states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit components, document their variants, states, behavior, and accessibility notes, or design a new component or pattern.
Why use it?
It helps find inconsistent names or hardcoded visual values before they spread, and keeps new interface patterns aligned with existing ones.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,316 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 $0.00052 $0.01316
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00658
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 2d ago against content hash fb31bd0144c4, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

design/skills/design-system/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/design-system

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

Manage your design system — audit for consistency, document components, or design new patterns.

Usage

/design-system audit                    # Full system audit
/design-system document [component]     # Document a component
/design-system extend [pattern]         # Design a new component or pattern

Components of a Design System

Design Tokens

Atomic values that define the visual language:

  • Colors (brand, semantic, neutral)
  • Typography (scale, weights, line heights)
  • Spacing (scale, component padding)
  • Borders (radius, width)
  • Shadows (elevation levels)
  • Motion (durations, easings)

Components

Reusable UI elements with defined:

  • Variants (primary, secondary, ghost)
  • States (default, hover, active, disabled, loading, error)
  • Sizes (sm, md, lg)
  • Behavior (interactions, animations)
  • Accessibility (ARIA, keyboard)

Patterns

Common UI solutions combining components:

  • Forms (input groups, validation, submission)
  • Navigation (sidebar, tabs, breadcrumbs)
  • Data display (tables, cards, lists)
  • Feedback (toasts, modals, inline messages)

Principles

  1. Consistency over creativity — The system exists so teams don't reinvent the wheel
  2. Flexibility within constraints — Components should be composable, not rigid
  3. Document everything — If it's not documented, it doesn't exist
  4. Version and migrate — Breaking changes need migration paths

Output — Audit

## Design System Audit

### Summary
**Components reviewed:** [X] | **Issues found:** [X] | **Score:** [X/100]

### Naming Consistency
| Issue | Components | Recommendation |
|-------|------------|----------------|
| [Inconsistent naming] | [List] | [Standard to adopt] |

### Token Coverage
| Category | Defined | Hardcoded Values Found |
|----------|---------|----------------------|
| Colors | [X] | [X] instances of hardcoded hex |
| Spacing | [X] | [X] instances of arbitrary values |
| Typography | [X] | [X] instances of custom fonts/sizes |

### Component Completeness
| Component | States | Variants | Docs | Score |
|-----------|--------|----------|------|-------|
| Button | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ | 8/10 |
| Input | ✅ | ⚠️ | ❌ | 5/10 |

### Priority Actions
1. [Most impactful improvement]
2. [Second priority]
3. [Third priority]

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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 · 191 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A fb31bd0144c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,791 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,316 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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