gsa-usds

gsa-usds is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from blencorp/skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (466 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cdc-dibbs-design-system, Apache-2.0.

A React design system for dense operational interfaces used by U.S. federal staff, such as dashboards and permitting tools, with accessible components and light and dark modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or review React and TypeScript federal applications with official components, design tokens, templates, and accessibility checks from the approved Git source.
Why use it?
It gives teams a defined interface style and usage rules for this specific U.S. Design System. It also clarifies that it is different from the government-wide USWDS system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build or review React and TypeScript federal applications with official components, design tokens, templates, and accessibility checks from the approved Git source.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/blencorp/skills/gsa-usds
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 blencorp/skills --skill gsa-usds
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/blencorp/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 466 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00077 $0.00466
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00233
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash 07fe85bfdc69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsa-usds 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 9d 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

This is a copy

89% identical to cdc-dibbs-design-system — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

federal/gsa-usds/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

GSA TTS A U.S. Design System

Before editing

  1. Confirm the product is inside this system's scope.
  2. Read references/implementation.md before installing, copying, or changing upstream assets.
  3. Read references/sources.md for provenance, version, and license.
  4. Inspect and preserve the target project's framework, package manager, asset pipeline, and accessibility tests.

Workflow

  1. Choose one documented delivery path and pin an exact package, commit, release, or downloaded asset snapshot.
  2. Use only official components, tokens, templates, and examples that are actually public.
  3. Extend through documented mechanisms. Label every unsupported addition as custom.
  4. Record the upstream version or commit and the accepted maturity/maintenance risk.
  5. Test keyboard operation, focus, names/roles/states, errors, status messages, contrast, zoom/reflow, responsive behavior, and supported browsers.

Boundaries

  • Scope: Dense operational federal applications. Do not confuse this React system, named USDS, with the government-wide U.S. Web Design System (USWDS).
  • Delivery: React and TypeScript components installed directly from the official Git repository.
  • Release: Installed from the official GitHub repository; no npm package is published. Pin an exact commit or tag.
  • Do not invent a registry package, public repository, component API, or release commitment.
  • Do not imply that a beta, hosted asset, code example, or product-specific repository is government-wide.
  • Do not claim legal or WCAG conformance for the completed service solely from component use.
  • If this system does not fit the product's requirements, route to the governing system or stop and explain the gap.

References

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. 9d ago First seen · 37 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 07fe85bfdc69

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gsa-usds is a skill published in the GitHub repository blencorp/skills (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 466 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to cdc-dibbs-design-system, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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