redesign-existing-projects

redesign-existing-projects is a skill for Claude Code from ariadoss/superskills. It costs 54 tokens per session (876 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A redesign guide for improving an existing website or app while keeping its functionality. It first scans the project, diagnoses visual weaknesses, and then applies targeted design changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit typography, colors, surfaces, spacing, and other design patterns when making an existing project look more professional.
Why use it?
It helps identify generic or inconsistent visual choices without requiring the project to be rebuilt from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the superskills plugin — 197 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit typography, colors, surfaces, spacing, and other design patterns when making an existing project look more professional.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariadoss/superskills/redesign-existing-projects
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 ariadoss/superskills --skill redesign-existing-projects
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariadoss/superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 876 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 $0.00054 $0.00876
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00088

Measured 10d ago against content hash b5b32cf6bac0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redesign-existing-projects 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.

design-skills/redesign-existing-projects/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Redesign Existing Projects

Upgrade existing websites and applications by auditing current design patterns, identifying generic AI aesthetics, and applying premium design standards while preserving all functionality.

Core Process

Three sequential steps — never skip any:

  1. Scan — understand the framework, styling approach, and existing design tokens
  2. Diagnose — comprehensive audit identifying weaknesses
  3. Apply — targeted fixes without rewriting from scratch

Audit Areas

Typography

Common problems:

  • Browser default fonts or Inter everywhere
  • Headlines lack visual presence or weight
  • Body text too small or too large
  • No typographic hierarchy — everything looks the same size

Fixes:

  • Select distinctive typeface for headings (not Inter)
  • Constrain paragraph width to ~65 characters
  • Add additional font weights for hierarchy
  • Increase heading size contrast ratio

Color & Surface

Problems to flag:

  • Pure #000000 backgrounds
  • Oversaturated accent colors
  • Purple/blue AI gradient aesthetic — the single most identifiable AI design fingerprint
  • Inconsistent shadow tinting (mixed warm/cool shadows)
  • Flat designs with zero surface texture

Fixes:

  • Replace pure black with off-black (#0a0a0a, #111111)
  • Desaturate accent to 60–70% saturation max
  • Replace AI gradients with neutral bases + deliberate single accent
  • Unify shadow tinting (warm for warm backgrounds, etc.)

Layout

Problems to flag:

  • Three equal-width card columns for feature rows
  • Generic hero: centered text + CTA + stock photo
  • All sections same spacing and visual weight
  • Fixed heights creating awkward content truncation

Fixes:

  • Asymmetric grids or masonry for feature sections
  • Hero with strong typographic anchor, not stock imagery
  • Vary section density for visual rhythm
  • Remove fixed heights; let content breathe

Interactivity & States

Critical missing elements:

  • No hover effects on interactive elements
  • No loading states (items appear instantly or freeze)
  • No focus indicators (keyboard users see nothing)
  • No empty states (just blank space)

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b5b32cf6bac0

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redesign-existing-projects is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariadoss/superskills (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 876 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 2026-08-31.

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