cms-design-system

cms-design-system is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from blencorp/skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of official design rules and reusable code for building accessible websites and digital services for the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build CMS products with official CSS, JavaScript, React components, layout helpers, and shared design values.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to invent page styles and interface behavior while helping teams meet accessibility requirements consistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 cms-design-system

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/blencorp/skills/cms-design-system.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/blencorp/skills/cms-design-system)
Your own site
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 460 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 5.1 $0.00050 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2c7b9aa2c22c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cms-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 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.

federal/cms-design-system/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CMS Design System

Build within the system's documented scope and delivery model.

Before editing

  1. Confirm the product owner and that this system is authorized for the target surface.
  2. Read references/implementation.md before installing or changing dependencies.
  3. Read references/sources.md when checking versions, provenance, license, or release state.
  4. Inspect the existing framework, package manager, asset pipeline, and accessibility tests. Preserve them unless the official integration requires a change.

Workflow

  1. Choose one documented delivery path; do not mix compiled, source, CDN, and framework-wrapper paths accidentally.
  2. Pin the dependency or downloaded asset version and keep upstream notices.
  3. Reuse official components, tokens, content guidance, and templates before adding custom UI.
  4. Extend through documented tokens, properties, slots, Sass settings, or composition. Do not edit vendored package files.
  5. Test semantic structure, keyboard operation, focus order and visibility, accessible names, error recovery, zoom/reflow, contrast, and target browsers.
  6. Report custom patterns, unsupported requirements, and upstream gaps explicitly.

Boundaries

  • Scope: CMS product interfaces using the core theme. Route HealthCare.gov, Medicare.gov, and CMS.gov work to their child-system skills.
  • Release: active official monorepo and npm package.
  • Delivery: CSS, JavaScript, React components, utility classes, tokens, and grid framework.
  • Do not invent component APIs, tokens, package names, or compliance claims.
  • Do not import another jurisdiction's branding to fill a gap.
  • A passing component example does not prove the completed service conforms to WCAG, Section 508, the ADA, or local policy.

References

  • Implementation — packages, setup, and integration decisions
  • Sources — authoritative URLs, snapshot versions, ownership, and license notes

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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 · 39 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 2c7b9aa2c22c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cms-design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository blencorp/skills (5 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 460 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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